Street-level drug markets have traditionally been understood as operating predominantly at
a local level, and there has been an absence of contemporary research that has challenged …

Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and
other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its …

Purpose Our objective was to elucidate the trends in non-medical use of prescription opioids
(NMUPO) among whites, African-Americans, and Hispanic adolescents in the United States …

Fatal drug overdose represents a significant public health threat in Philadelphia, but
substantial variation exists across its communities. This study uses negative binomial …

Introduction Drug overdose deaths are often geographically discordant (the community in
which the overdose death occurs is different from the community of residence). Thus, in …

Purpose The Kensington transit corridor runs between Huntingdon and Allegheny stations in
the Kensington area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is one of the largest illicit drug areas …

Research on journey-to-crime distance has revealed the importance of both the
characteristics of the offender as well as those of target communities. However, the effect of …

Purpose: To examine a component of crime pattern theory by exploring whether the spatial
predictors of crime vary across seasons. Methods: The relationships among potentially …

This article explores the phenomenon whereby disabled people's homes are being
occupied (ie cuckooed) by local perpetrators and/or county lines organised criminal groups …

We advance discussion of structural inequality by operationalizing “concentrated”
disadvantage in terms of highly disadvantaged communities located at the spatial core of …