Neighborhoods and Health
Assessing 'Neighborhood Effects' on Accidental Drug Deaths
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2153641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Contreras (0000-0002-2418-3847, University of Massachusetts Boston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1713-1734 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.2023.2231124 |
| OpenAlex | W4383342016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 94 |
In this paper, I applied criminological theory to the epidemiological understanding of health-related deviant behavior such as problematic drug use. To that end, I built and subsequently tested an epidemiological model informed by macro-level criminological theory that helped explain the spatial distribution of accidental drug deaths across neighborhoods in a heavily suburban area (i.e. unincorporated Miami-Dade County, FL), analyzing toxicology reports from the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Department. Estimating a negative binomial analysis of drug abuse that predicted drug-related death rates from 2013 through 2017, I drew insights from the following place-based control theories or perspectives in macro criminology: social disorganization, relative deprivation, immigration revitalization, social institutions, and drug enforcement. I found support for social disorganization theory and the immigration revitalization and social institutions perspectives. Since drug abuse is deviant behavior that is both criminal and health-related, criminology and epidemiology appear to overlap with one another. Epidemiology, the study of disease distribution among populations, would profit by integrating insights from social control theories of criminology. Researchers interested in the social context of neighborhoods and the clustering of drug deaths can apply macrocriminological theory to social epidemiology, which concerns itself with the social determinants of health
Context (archaeology · Criminalization · Criminology · Drug · Environmental health · Geography · Heroin · Law enforcement · Miami · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Public health · Social determinants of health · Social epidemiology · Sociology · Substance abuse · Crime Patterns and Interventions · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Epidemiology
Social Epidemiology
Negative Binomial Regression
Code of the Suburb
Factors Associated With County-Level Differences in U.S. Drug-Related Mortality Rates
Defining Suburbs
Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century
Evaluation of Increases in Drug Overdose Mortality Rates in the US by Race and Ethnicity Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Neighborhood Context of Well-Being
Drivers of the fatal drug epidemic
Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2017
Policing and risk of overdose mortality in urban neighborhoods
Latino Immigrants, Acculturation, and Health
Income distribution and risk of fatal drug overdose in New York City neighborhoods
Income Inequality
Drug Overdose Deaths Among US Hispanics
Geography of poly-substance drug mortality
Variation in US drug overdose mortality within and between Hispanic/Latine subgroups
Spatial Polygamy and Contextual Exposures (SPACEs)
Crime and Public Policy
Communities and Crime
Global Edge
The Search for Rational Drug Control
Latino Homicide
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Policing drug hot spots
Disadvantage and Neighborhood Violent Crime
Rethinking Crime and Immigration
Growing sense of social status threat and concomitant deaths of despair among whites
Policing space in the overdose crisis
The impact of a police crackdown on a street drug scene
Alcohol outlets, drug paraphernalia sales, and neighborhood drug overdose
The Opioid Crisis
Crime and Safety in Suburbia
Opioids and the Criminal Justice System
From Bad to Worse
Resisting Amnesia
Incorporating Latinos and Immigrants Into Policing Research
The Simultaneous Effect of Social Distance and Physical Distance on the Formation of Neighborhood Ties
Safety becomes danger
Drug overdoses, geographic trajectories, and the influence of built environment and neighborhood characteristics
Understanding the role of urban social and physical environment in opioid overdose events using found geospatial data
The ecology of overdose mortality in Philadelphia
How Drug Enforcement Affects Drug Prices
Substance Abuse Prevention
Revisiting the Role of the Urban Environment in Substance Use
Undocumented Immigration, Drug Problems, and Driving Under the Influence in the United States, 1990–2014
Bayesian Model Selection in Social Research
Are Poor Neighborhoods Resource Deprived? A Case Study of Childcare Centers in New York
More immigrants, less death
Close‐ups and the Scale of Ecology
Egohoods as Waves Washing Across the City
Voluntary Organizations and Neighborhood Crime
Policing and public health
Social Disorganization, Drug Market Activity, and Neighborhood Violent Crime
Epidemiological Criminology
Impossible Criminals
What explains the association between neighborhood-level income inequality and the risk of fatal overdose in New York City
Surveillance and System Avoidance
The problems of relative deprivation
America's Safest City
The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods
The Community Determinants of Death
What Is Driving the Drug Overdose Epidemic in the United States
The New Sociology of Suburbs
Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction
The Opioid Hydra
Immediate and Neighborhood Contextual Effects on Intentional, Accidental, and Fatal Drug Overdoses in a Non-Urban Jurisdiction
Understanding the density of nonprofit organizations across Los Angeles neighborhoods
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |