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Although illicit drug activity occurs within local communities, past quantitative research on drug markets and violent crime in the United States has been conducted mainly at the city level of aggregation. We use neighborhood-level data from the city of Miami to test hypotheses regarding the effect of drug activity and traditional indicators of social disorganization on rates of aggravated assault and robbery. Our results show that drug activity has robust effects on violent crime that are independent of other disorganization indicators. We also find that drug activity is concentrated in neighborhoods with low rates of immigration, less linguistic isolation and ethnic heterogeneity, and where non-drug accidental deaths are prevalent. We find no independent effect of neighborhood racial composition on drug activity or violent crime. The results suggest that future neighborhood-level research on social disorganization and violent crime should devote explicit attention to the disorganizing and violence-producing effects of illicit drug activity. |
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| Martinez, Ramiro. and Rosenfeld, Richard. "Social Disorganization, Drug Market Activity, and Neighborhood Violent Crime" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p182495_index.html> |
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| Martinez, R. and Rosenfeld, R. , 2007-08-11 "Social Disorganization, Drug Market Activity, and Neighborhood Violent Crime" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p182495_index.html |
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Abstract: Although illicit drug activity occurs within local communities, past quantitative research on drug markets and violent crime in the United States has been conducted mainly at the city level of aggregation. We use neighborhood-level data from the city of Miami to test hypotheses regarding the effect of drug activity and traditional indicators of social disorganization on rates of aggravated assault and robbery. Our results show that drug activity has robust effects on violent crime that are independent of other disorganization indicators. We also find that drug activity is concentrated in neighborhoods with low rates of immigration, less linguistic isolation and ethnic heterogeneity, and where non-drug accidental deaths are prevalent. We find no independent effect of neighborhood racial composition on drug activity or violent crime. The results suggest that future neighborhood-level research on social disorganization and violent crime should devote explicit attention to the disorganizing and violence-producing effects of illicit drug activity. |
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| Social Disorganization Drug Market Activity and Neighborhood Violent Crime 2 Ramiro Martinez Florida International University Richard Rosenfeld University of Missouri-St. Louis Dennis Mares Florida Atlantic University Revision: March 15 2006 3 Abstract Although illicit drug activity occurs within local communities past quantitative research on drug markets and violent crime in the United States has been conducted mainly at the city level of aggregation. We use neighborhood-level data from the city of Miami to test hypotheses regarding the effect of |
| deprivation is not significant (results not shown). 11 The adjusted coefficients of determination for the aggravated assault models containing the original deprivation index and the revised index respectively are R2adj = .526 and .540. The corresponding comparison for robbery is R2adj = .417 and .430 and for drug activity R2adj = .335 and .336. The conventional F-test on these small differences in model fit shows none to be statistically significant. 12 The supplementary analyses are available from the authors |
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