Abstract
This paper explores the impact of increasing drug enforcement on the violent crime rate in the context of spatial competition in illicit drug markets. Violence is an important aspect of competition in illicit markets because disputes cannot be resolved in the courts. A model of spatial competition suggests higher drug enforcement in one jurisdiction will increase the size of the drug market in an adjoining jurisdiction, resulting in a higher violent crime rate. Data from Florida jurisdictions suggest that geographic spillovers of violent crime result from law enforcement differentials and imply that they are much larger than those found in studies of property crime.
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Thank you very much for bestowing upon me the great honor of Fellow of the Southern Regional Science Association
In renewing my commitment to our region and its development, I would like to take you on a trip through the Southern countryside before making the erudite observations that this occasion demands
I take my inspiration from an experience just last Sunday
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Thank you very much for bestowing upon me the great honor of Fellow of the Southern Regional Science Association. My 80-year-old mother is the last member, the next-to-last having died last fall. Past the home place where Mother was raised in sight of the church, which is a deer hunting club house all in shambles. Past occasional large dairy farms and a few plowed fields.
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