10.2190/R0G0-FRWY-100J-6KTB R0G0FRWY100J6KTB 3 Bars, Blocks, and Crimes 35 47 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 R0G0FRWY100J6KTB.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=R0G0FRWY100J6KTB 1 Dennis W. Roncek Ralph Bell Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle We investigate the effect of bars or taverns on the amount of crime occurring on residential blocks. Our specific problem fits within the context of segregating non-residential from residential uses. We find that blocks with bars have more crime than blocks without bars, and that the number of bars on a block is moderately important for explaining where crimes occur. There are, however, no strong unique effects from locating bars on poor or minority blocks. Because the number of bars does not explain much of the variance in crime, our analyses do not warrant prohibiting bars on residential blocks. D. W. G. Frisbie, G. Fishbine, R. Hintz, M. Joelson, and J. M. Nutter, <i>Crime In Minneapolis: Proposals for Prevention</i>, Governor's Commission on Crime Prevention and Control, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1977. J. Jacobs, <i>The Death and Life of Great American Cities</i>, Vintage, New York, 1961. A. Carol, City Crime, <i>Municipal Performance Report, 1</i>:2, pp. 2-38, 1973. J. L. Hammond, Two Sources of Error in Ecological Correlations, <i>American Sociological Review, 38</i>:6, pp. 754-777, 1973. M. T. Hannan, <i>Aggregation and Disaggregation in Sociology</i>, D. C. Heath, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1971. K. E. Taeuber and A. F. Taeuber, <i>Negroes in Cities</i>, Aldine, Chicago, 1965. M. E. Wolfgang, Urban Crime, J. Q. Wilson (ed.), <i>The Metropolitan Enigma</i>, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 245-281, 1968. U. S. Bureau of the Census, <i>ADMATCH</i>, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1970. S. Boggs, Urban Crime Patterns, <i>American Sociological Review, 30</i>:6 pp. 899-908, 1965. C. F. Schmid, Urban Crime Areas, <i>American Sociological Review, 25</i>:4, pp. 527-542, 1960. G. F. Pyle, et al., <i>The Spatial Dynamics of Crime</i>, The University of Chicago Department of Geography, Chicago, 1974. U. S. Bureau of the Census, <i>Current Population Reports, Series P-20, No. 306, Marital Status and Living Arrangements</i>, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1977. D. Heer, <i>Society and Population</i>, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1968. H. M. Choldin and D. W. Roncek, Density, Population Potential, and Pathology: A Block-Level Analysis, <i>Review of Public Data Use, 4</i>:2, pp. 19-30, 1976. G. Farnsworth, M. White, and J. Robinson, <i>Dime Area Centroid System (DACS)</i>, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1973. R. C. Rockwell, The Assessment of Multicollinearity, <i>Sociological Methods and Research, 3</i>: l, pp. 309-320, 1975.