Drug Courts and Community Crime Rates: A Nationwide Analysis of Jurisdiction-Level Outcomes
Table 4
The estimated impact of the drug court and other justice grants on individual index crimes (1995–2002).
Variable
Murder
Robbery
Aggrav. assault
Rape
Burglary
Larceny
Vehicle theft
Drug courts
0.071 (1.50)
0.079 (2.16)
0.069 (2.07)
0.112 (2.66)
0.072 (2.93)
0.051 (2.57)
0.239 (6.10)
COPS Hiring
−0.021 (3.07)
−0.037 (4.81)
−0.004 (0.59 )
0.006 (0.069)
−0.030 (4.11)
−0.009 (1.68)
−0.033 (3.21)
COPS MORE
−0.077 (4.69)
−0.091 (6.32)
−0.023 (2.51)
−0.071 (3.57)
−0.077 (4.35)
−0.054 (4.17)
−0.096 (3.96)
Weed and Seed
−0.027 (1.27)
−0.067 (3.96)
−0.062 (3.13)
−0.072 (3.67)
−0.041 (3.04)
0.007 (1.15)
−0.005 (0.45)
SCAAP
−0.052 (3.61)
−0.062 (4.37)
−0.032 (2.81)
−0.025 (2.16)
−0.045 (4.44)
−0.032 (4.21)
0.026 (1.78)
Law Enforc. Block Grant
−0.089 (6.30)
−0.111 (9.51)
−0.083 (6.65)
−0.053 (6.59)
−0.031 (5.81)
−0.010 (2.45)
−0.051 (5.06)
Per capita income
−0.674 (8.19)
−0.542 (6.59)
−0.462 (6.56)
−0.195 (2.91)
−0.882 (11.72)
−0.571 (10.41)
−0.783 (6.18)
Age 15−24
2.761 (3.46)
3.680 (4.31)
4.027 (6.35)
5.152 (5.47)
4.185 (6.10)
−0.344 (0.87)
9.245 (9.18)
Nonwhite
2.526 (4.31)
−0.197 (0.439)
−0.944 (1.31)
−2.623 (3.16)
−0.834 (1.53)
−1.994 (5.41)
−0.165 (0.39)
Employment rate
0.146 (0.38)
−0.162 (0.41)
0.354 (1.33)
0.921 (2.67)
0.122 (0.61)
0.112 (1.55)
0.628 (1.49)
Crime growth cells
−0.006 (5.15)
−0.008 (6.82)
−0.010 (10.25)
−0.008 (6.06)
0.001 (2.02)
0.002 (4.25)
−0.003 (2.16)
Dependent var. (lagged)
−0.077 (9.50)
−0.032 (11.30)
−0.033 (9.78)
0.104 (5.71)
−0.001 (1.01)
0.003 (5.88)
−0.005 (2.70)
Constant
−0.066 (1.78)
−0.109 (2.90)
−0.084 (2.25)
−0.109 (2.54)
−0.035 (2.11)
0.016 (1.37)
−0.062 (2.07)
0.057
0.137
0.086
0.044
0.364
0.234
0.142
= 31,041 annual observations (5,172 agencies). Coefficients that are significant at the 0.05 level are displayed in bold. Robust statistics are in parentheses. Jurisdiction and year fixed effects were also included. All variables were log transformed.