title: Evaluating the effects of the introduction of off-sale alcohol outlets on violent crime.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the effects on violence of a policy change that ended prohibition of off-sale alcohol outlets in Lubbock, Texas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Time-series analysis of violent crime data from police records comparing the periods before and after the policy change.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The effect of the policy change on both total violent crime and aggregated assault was small and did not approach statistical significance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Increased availability of alcohol through off-sale premises may not influence the type of violence reported to the police in Lubbock, Texas.
authors: Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
authors: Daikwon
authors: D
authors: Han
authors: Dennis M
authors: DM
authors: Gorman
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000434:Alcoholic Beverages / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003415:Crime / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D013781:Texas / Q000453:epidemiology; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*