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Alcohol Outlets, Social Disorganization, And Robberies: Accounting For Neighborhood Characteristics And Alcohol Outlet Types, Aleksandra J. Snowden, Tina L. Freiburger

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

We estimated spatially lagged regression and spatial regime models to determine if the variation in total, on-premise, and off-premise alcohol outlet density is related to robbery density, while controlling for direct and moderating effects of social disorganization. Results suggest that the relationship between alcohol outlet density and robbery density is sensitive to the measurement of social disorganization levels. Total alcohol outlet density and off-premise alcohol outlet density were significantly associated with robbery density when social disorganization variables were included separately in the models. However, when social disorganization levels were captured as a four item index, only the association between off-premise …