The Effect of Cocaine Prices on Crime

DeSimone, Jeffrey

doi:10.1093/ei/39.4.627

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“…As illustrated in Table 1, most used U.S. state-level data on beer taxes, examining associations with rape and sexual assault crime data (Cook & Moore, 1993; Desimone, 2001; Zimmerman & Benson, 2007) or self-reported rape and sexual assault victimization data (Markowitz, 2005). The majority of studies concluded that higher alcohol prices and taxes were associated with lower rates of sexual violence at the state level (Cook & Moore, 1993; Desimone, 2001; Grossman & Markowitz, 1999; Zimmerman & Benson, 2007). Markowitz (2005) did not find a statistically significant relationship between sexual violence and higher taxes but did report lower rates of general physical assaults overall.…”

Section: Evidence Linking Alcohol Policy and Sexual Violencementioning

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Exploring Alcohol Policy Approaches to Prevent Sexual Violence Perpetration

Lippy

DeGue

2014

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Sexual violence continues to be a significant public health problem worldwide with serious consequences for individuals and communities. The implementation of prevention strategies that address risk and protective factors for sexual violence at the community level are important components of a comprehensive approach, but few such strategies have been identified or evaluated. The current review explores one potential opportunity for preventing sexual violence perpetration at the community level: alcohol policy. Alcohol policy has the potential to impact sexual violence perpetration through the direct effects of excessive alcohol consumption on behavior or through the impact of alcohol and alcohol outlets on social organization within communities. Policies affecting alcohol pricing, sale time, outlet density, drinking environment, marketing, and college environment are reviewed to identify existing evidence of impact on rates of sexual violence or related outcomes, including risk factors and related health behaviors. Several policy areas with initial evidence of an association with sexual violence outcomes were identified, including policies affecting alcohol pricing, alcohol outlet density, barroom management, sexist content in alcohol marketing, and policies banning alcohol on campus and in substance-free dorms. We identify other policy areas with evidence of an impact on related outcomes and risk factors that may also hold potential as a preventative approach for sexual violence perpetration. Evidence from the current review suggests that alcohol policy may represent one promising avenue for the prevention of sexual violence perpetration at the community level, but additional research is needed to directly examine effects on sexual violence outcomes.

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Section: Evidence Linking Alcohol Policy and Sexual Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…SV: Beneficial effects on rates of SV based on self-report and law enforcement data in four studies (Cook & Moore, 1993; Desimone, 2001; Grossman & Markowitz, 1999; Zimmerman & Benson, 2007); null effects on self-reported rates of SV in two studies (Herttua, Mäkelä, Martikainen, & Sirén, 2008; Markowitz, 2005)…”

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Exploring Alcohol Policy Approaches to Prevent Sexual Violence Perpetration

Lippy

DeGue

2014

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…Chaloupka and Saffer find similar results; higher beer taxes lower the rates of rape, robbery, and homicide, but not physical assault. Desimone (2001) conducts a similar analysis and finds a negative relationship between the state beer tax and assaults, rapes, and some types of property crimes. However, all of these studies only analyze crimes that have been reported to the police and are therefore limited in their generalizability.…”

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Estimating the Relationship between Alcohol Policies and Criminal Violence and Victimization

Markowitz¹,

Nesson²,

Poe-Yamagata³

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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 individual level victimizations from the U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey. We examine the effects of a number of different alcohol control policies in reducing violent crime. These policies include the retail price of beer, drunk driving laws and penalties, keg laws, and serving and selling laws. We find some evidence of a negative relationship between alcohol prices and the probability of alcohol or drug related assault victimizations. However, we find no strong evidence that other alcohol policies are effective in reducing violent crimes. These results provide policy makers with guidance on potential approaches for reducing violence through alcohol beverage control.

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“…Also, in a similar context, for example, to the U.S. case of Bandyopadhyay and McCannon (2014), we also explore new deterrence variables that reflect the arbitrary discretion in the use of this important instrument to prosecutors, i.e., summary prosecution. 4 The question of cross-crime spillover effects, through arrest or imprisonment, has been addressed in Holtman and Yap (1978), Hakim et al (1984), Cameron (1987), Benson et al (1998), Resignato (2000), Desimone (2001), or Kuziemko and Levitt (2004), although, as shown in Sect. 2, their analytic frameworks are not the same (or as much integrated) as the one used in this paper.…”

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Discretionary prosecution of regulatory crimes: disproportionate emphasis and consequences to other serious crimes

Kim

Byeon

2017

Asia-Pac J Reg Sci

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Prosecutors pay closer attention to cases related to regulatory policies that are emphasized by the political community. Discrepancy in the prosecution efforts between 'regulatory crimes' and 'conventional crimes' has widened significantly in Korea over the past 40 years. Considering both the low prosecuting preference for, and the rapid increases in, violent, property, and sexual crimes, we investigate the different spillover effects to the incidence of these serious sub-categories of conventional crimes due to the 'disproportionate' focus on regulatory crimes. The spillovers stem from the resource constraints and the economic incentives of enforcers and criminals. In this paper, it is found that the spillover was the greatest in sexual crimes and violent crimes, both of which are conceived to be most harmful to society. Therefore, the opportunity cost of the politically-motivated prosecuting focus has also been borne in a 'disproportionate' fashion. We also discover that, in pursuing the prosecuting emphasis on regulatory crimes under resource constraints, prosecutors have also discretionarily increased the use of 'summary prosecution' for other crimes, since it is a less expensive instrument for prosecutors.

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The Effect of Cocaine Prices on Crime

Cited by 28 publications

References 26 publications

Exploring Alcohol Policy Approaches to Prevent Sexual Violence Perpetration

Exploring Alcohol Policy Approaches to Prevent Sexual Violence Perpetration

Estimating the Relationship between Alcohol Policies and Criminal Violence and Victimization

Discretionary prosecution of regulatory crimes: disproportionate emphasis and consequences to other serious crimes

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