violence may erode community engagement with law enforcement and highlight the call-to-shot ratio as a natural measure of …

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 …

Crack cocaine markets were associated with substantial increases in violence in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s …. Using cross-city variation in the emergence of these markets, we show that the resulting violence has important long … rates today compared to older cohorts. The long run effects of this increase in violence are large. We attribute nearly …

We study the impact of health shocks on domestic violence and illicit drug use. We argue that health is a form of human … breakthrough reduced domestic violence and illicit drug use. Our findings provide support for the idea that health improvements can … that both domestic violence and illicit drug use are social problems often seen as frustratingly impervious to …

incidence of criminal violence in a nationally representative sample of individuals in the United States. The positive … association between substance use and violence is well documented, as is the negative relationship between the quantity of alcohol … increases in substance prices will directly decrease the incidence of criminal violence. Violence is measured by assault, rape …