George Mason University.
Urban Stud. 2011;48(13):2715-732. doi: 10.1177/0042098010388953.
Places in which there is a strong spatial connection between violence and drug activity can often evoke particular stereotypes. They are believed to be places marked by high levels of social disorganisation, unemployment, disorder and racial heterogeneity. Yet scholars have argued that the spatial relationship between drug market activity and violence is more complicated and that other factors may explain this geographical connection. In the first article of this two-part series, different types of spatial analysis were employed to describe crime concentrations of drugs and violence. Evidence was found that challenges the notion that places with drug activity are inevitably more violent. This second paper examines what factors predict these variations in drug–violence spatial patterns in Seattle when derived using different spatial methods. The findings indicate that racial composition, disorder and unemployment may not be as salient as once believed in predicting places that are violent drug markets.
在暴力和毒品活动之间存在强烈空间关联的地方，往往会引起特定的刻板印象。这些地方被认为是社会失序、失业、混乱和种族异质性程度高的地方。然而，学者们认为，毒品市场活动和暴力之间的空间关系更为复杂，其他因素可能可以解释这种地理联系。在这两篇系列文章的第一篇中，采用了不同类型的空间分析来描述毒品和暴力犯罪的集中程度。有证据表明，毒品活动集中的地方必然更暴力这种观点是站不住脚的。第二篇文章探讨了在使用不同的空间方法得出的西雅图毒品-暴力空间模式的变化时，哪些因素可以预测这些变化。研究结果表明，种族构成、混乱和失业在预测暴力毒品市场方面可能并不像以前认为的那样重要。
