Close only counts in alcohol and violence: Controlling violence near late-night alcohol establishments using a routine activities approach

Burgason, Kyle A.; Drawve, Grant; Brown, Timothy C.; Eassey, John M.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.04.004

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“…ACPD's focus on convenience stores prioritized through crime analysis offers new directions and opportunities for research and practice. This study adds to the state of knowledge about place-based policing and complements prior studies showing the effectiveness of crime prevention via activities directed at specific attractors and generators of criminogenic environments (Burgason, Drawve, Brown and Eassey, 2017;Brantingham et al, 2020;Ariel, Sherman and Newton, 2019;Gotham and Kennedy, 2019). It reifies findings of the Committee to Review Research on Police Policy and Practices report (Skogan & Frydl, 2004) that geographically focused strategies have the strongest record of effect on repressing crime.…”

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confidence: 67%

Data-Informed Crime Prevention at Convenience Stores in Atlantic City

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2021

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The Atlantic City Police Department intervened to reduce robberies with an evidencebased approach. Informed by risk terrain modeling and hot spot analysis, police commanders implemented a place-based intervention focused around convenience stores. Target areas throughout the city were reprioritized each month to create a dynamic deployment strategy that efficiently allocated resources to the most vulnerable places. Risk reduction actions, such as business checks, were favored over law enforcement against people. Robberies significantly decreased by over 37% within four months. There was a significant spatial diffusion of benefits and there were fewer arrests, as should be expected with fewer crimes and a tactical place-based, not person-oriented, approach. Implications for policy and practice are discussed within the contexts of rapid evidence-based police responses to urgent crime problems, police culture, and data analytics.

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confidence: 67%

Data-Informed Crime Prevention at Convenience Stores in Atlantic City

Kennedy

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Drawve

2021

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“…One way to reduce violence is to influence geographical availability of off-premise alcohol outlets via policy mechanisms, such as reducing the number of outlets that are licensed to operate in the area, limiting new alcohol licenses to operate in close proximity to already existing alcohol outlets, or limiting the hours and days during which off-premise alcohol outlets are licensed to operate. In addition, a prior study of a Little Rock, Arkansas city ordinance that required late-operating bars to employ a minimum of two law enforcement officers in and around the outlet suggested that providing an additional level of place managers can reduce crime even in most risky alcohol outlets (Burgason, Drawve, Brown, & Eassey, 2017). Most important, although all types of alcohol beverages are related to robbery rates in neighborhoods, availability of premixed drinks, beer, and wine, as well as that of single premixed drinks and single beers is more important for robberies than spirits.…”

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The Relationship Between Alcohol Beverage Types and Violence

Snowden

2018

Journal of Drug Issues

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There is substantial evidence of an ecological association between off-premise alcohol outlets and violence. We know less, however, about how specific beverage types that are sold in the outlets might explain the difference in violence rates across different alcohol outlets. Data on alcohol beverage types were collected for all offpremise alcohol outlets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, using a systematic social observation instrument. Spatially lagged regression models were estimated to determine whether the variation in alcohol beverage types is related to robbery density net of important neighborhood predictors of crime rates. Availability of all alcohol beverage types (beer, wine, spirits, premixed, single beer, single spirits, single premixed) was positively associated with the density of robberies, net of neighborhood characteristics. Reducing alcohol beverages, regardless of the beverage type, sold at off-premise alcohol outlets may reduce violence in communities.

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“…A reason for this pattern is that city centres also concentrate premises that sell alcohol, bowling, cinemas, etc., which generate activities that reproduce problems beyond typical commercial offences, such as violence. The link between violence and the opening hours of restaurants and bars is widely recognised in studies in the US, Sweden, Norway and Australia (Burgason, Drawve, Brown and Eassey, 2017;Menéndez, Tusell and Weatherburn 2017;Rossow and Norström, 2012;Wingren, 2014).…”

Section: Temporal and Spatial Patterns Of Retail Crimementioning

confidence: 99%