Schools and Neighborhood Crime
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Alcohol establishment density and crime
Although numerous studies have found a positive association between density of alcohol establishments and various types of crime, few have examined how neighborhood attributes (e.g., schools, parks) could moderate this association. We used data from Minneapolis, Minnesota with neighborhood as the unit of analysis (n = 83). We examined nine types of crime measured density as total number of esta...
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