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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Criminology
  • Substance Abuse Prevention

Background:

  • Underage alcohol sales pose significant public health risks.
  • Law enforcement compliance checks are a strategy to reduce illegal alcohol sales.
  • It is theorized that compliance checks may have a diffusion effect on nearby establishments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the effects of police compliance checks on alcohol sales to underage individuals extend to neighboring establishments.
  • To determine the spatial extent and decay of compliance check effects.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from over 2,000 compliance checks at 900+ alcohol establishments.
  • Employed multilevel logistic regression to analyze the impact of direct and neighboring compliance checks.
  • Controlled for buyer, license, establishment, and community-level variables.

Main Results:

  • Compliance checks significantly decreased illegal alcohol sales at checked establishments, though effects decayed over time.
  • Establishments near a checked neighbor (within 125m) showed reduced sales to underage buyers.
  • The spatial influence of compliance checks diminished rapidly with increasing distance.

Conclusions:

  • Findings confirm that police compliance checks have a demonstrable spillover effect on neighboring alcohol establishments.
  • These results support the optimization of compliance check scheduling for enhanced prevention strategies.