title: Not in My Back Yard: A Comparative Analysis of Crime Around Publicly Funded Drug Treatment Centers, Liquor Stores, Convenience Stores, and Corner Stores in One Mid-Atlantic City.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This research examined whether publicly funded drug treatment centers (DTCs) were associated with violent crime in excess of the violence happening around other commercial businesses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Violent crime data and locations of community entities were geocoded and mapped. DTCs and other retail outlets were matched based on a Neighborhood Disadvantage score at the census tract level. Street network buffers ranging from 100 to 1,400 feet were placed around each location. Negative binomial regression models were used to estimate the relationship between the count of violent crimes and the distance from each business type.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with the mean count of violent crime around drug treatment centers, the mean count of violent crime (M = 2.87) was significantly higher around liquor stores (M = 3.98; t test; p < .01) and corner stores (M = 3.78; t test; p < .01), and there was no statistically significant difference between the count around convenience stores (M = 2.65; t test; p = .32). In the adjusted negative binomial regression models, there was a negative and significant relationship between the count of violent crime and the distance from drug treatment centers (β = -.069, p < .01), liquor stores (β = -.081, p < .01), corner stores (β = -.116, p < .01), and convenience stores (β = -.154, p < .01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Violent crime associated with drug treatment centers is similar to that associated with liquor stores and is less frequent than that associated with convenience stores and corner stores.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: C Debra M
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Furr-Holden
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.|School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
authors.forename: Adam J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Milam
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Elizabeth D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Nesoff
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Renee M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: David O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Fakunle
authors.affiliation: Center for Child and Community Health Research, Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Jacky M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Jennings
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Roland J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Thorpe
mesh_terms: D015142:Baltimore / Q000453:epidemiology; D003415:Crime / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D058012:Small Business / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014754:Violence / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data