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Abstract
This article examines the relationship between alcohol availability and nonlethal violence at the census-tract level in Miami, a multiethnic city with high levels of disadvantage and immigration. The effects of alcohol (total outlet rate) are considered from the perspectives of social disorganization and routine activities theories. Nonlethal violence is the average annual rates of robbery, aggravated assault, and total violence (combined aggravated assault and robbery). The analyses include corrections for spatial autocorrelation. The results show that alcohol availability has strong positive effects on rates of nonlethal violence and that the percentage of recent immigrants is also a significant positive predictor.
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We thank Janet Lauritsen and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.
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Amie L. Nielsen
Amie L. Nielsen, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami. Her primary research interests are race-ethnicity, alcohol, and crime. Recent articles in these areas have appeared or are forthcoming in Deviant Behavior, Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Social Science Quarterly, and International Migration Review.
Ramiro Martinez
Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Criminal Justice Program and School of Public Health at Florida International University. He is the 2001 National Institute of Justice DuBois fellow and author of the book, Latino Homicide: Immigration, Violence, and Community (Routledge, 2002). He has also published numerous articles on these themes.