Research Article
Drug Courts and Community Crime Rates: A Nationwide Analysis of Jurisdiction-Level Outcomes
Table 2
Descriptive statistics for independent and control variables (1995–2002).
| | Variable | Mean | Standard deviation |
| | Independent variables | | | | Drug court grants (startup, Byrne, LLEB) | 0.02 | 0.24 | | COPS Hiring grant | 1.61 | 2.86 | | COPS MORE grant | 0.44 | 1.56 | | Weed and Seed grant | 0.09 | 0.55 | | State Criminal Alien Assistance grant | 0.24 | 4.94 | | Local Law Enforcement Block Grant | 1.14 | 4.05 | | Control variables | | | | Pct. nonwhite | 0.19 | 0.14 | | Pct. age 15–24 | 0.14 | 0.03 | | Per capita income | 29,312 | 11,777 | | Employment rate | 0.64 | 0.58 |
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= 31,041 annual observations (5,172 agencies).
Independent variables are expressed in dollar amounts per capita.
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