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criminal violence in different countries around the world. The positive association between alcoholic beverage consumption and … violence is well documented, as is the negative relationship between the quantity of alcohol consumed and its price. These two … incidence of criminal violence. The data come from the 1989 and 1992 International Victimization Surveys. The sample used in …
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Violence is one of the leading social problems in the United States. The development of appropriate public policies to … curtail violence is confounded by the relationship between alcohol and violence. In this paper, we estimate the propensity of … alcohol control policies to reduce the perpetration and victimization of criminal violence. We measure violence with data on …
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violence may erode community engagement with law enforcement and highlight the call-to-shot ratio as a natural measure of …
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of the effects of drug and alcohol consumption on violence may be biased because of the possibility that both behaviors … consumption in the violence equation. This technique allows the consumption measures to be purged of their correlation with …
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violence on college campuses. The principal hypothesis tested is that the incidence of violence is negatively related to the … alcohol and violence and the negative relationship between the use of alcohol and its price. The data employed in the study … adverse consequences of its use. These adverse consequences include the following indicators of violence: getting in trouble …
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associated with excessive drinking. Largely ignored in the literature is the link" between alcohol use and domestic violence …. Given the established positive relationship between" alcohol consumption and acts of violence, the purpose of this paper is … to examine the role changes" in the determinants of the demand for alcohol may play in reducing the incidence of violence …
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Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 … cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the National Family Violence Survey. The 1985 data are a nationally representative …
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Police use of force - particularly lethal force - is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive datasets on Officer-Involved-Shootings (OIS). I...
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A large body of evidence documents a link between alcohol consumption and violence involving intimate partners and …-at-home orders, there has been a marked increase in domestic violence. This research considers an important mechanism behind the … increase in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: an increase in the riskiness of alcohol consumption. We combine 911 …
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This paper explores racial differences in police use of force. On non-lethal uses of force, blacks and Hispanics are more than fifty percent more likely to experience some form of force in interactions with police. Adding controls that account for important context and civilian behavior reduces,...
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