Violence and the U.S. prohibitions of drugs and alcohol |
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Authors: | Miron JA |
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Affiliation: | Department of Economics, Boston University, 270 Bay State Rd., Boston, MA 02215, USA Fax: (617) 353 4449 E-mail: jmiron@bu.edu |
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Abstract: | This paper examines the relation between prohibitions and violence,using the historical behavior of the homicide rate in the UnitedStates. The results document that increases in enforcement ofdrug and alcohol prohibition have been associated with increasesin the homicide rate, and auxiliary evidence suggests this positivecorrelation reflects a causal effect of prohibition enforcementon homicide. Controlling for other potential determinants ofthe homicide rate does not alter the conclusion that drug andalcohol prohibition have substantially raised the homicide ratein the U.S. over much of the past 100 years. |
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