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Title: The American Temperance Movement and Market-Based Violence

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: The net impact of market legality on crime is ambiguous if consumption of the illegally traded good causes violence. With modern crime data, I show that drug control policy that increases market-based violence while reducing violence associated with intoxication raises homicide rates for individuals in their 20s relative to older and younger people. Using a state-level panel of age-specific homicides from 1900 to 1940, when many states and eventually the federal government criminalized alcohol markets, I demonstrate that the spread of the temperance movement similarly com- pressed the age distribution of homicide victims, primarily in northern, urban states with large immigrant populations.

Url: http://aler.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/18/aler.ahu009.full.pdf+html

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Authors: Owens, Emily G.

Periodical (Full): American Law and Economics Review

Issue: 2

Volume: 16

Pages: 433-472

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Topics: Crime and Deviance

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