Showing papers by "Lisa Stolzenberg published in 2019"
TL;DR: Evidence that MMLs may ultimately serve to attenuate the consequences of opioid overreliance is provided as survey respondents living in states with medical cannabis legislation are much less apt to report using opioid analgesics than peopleliving in states without such laws, net other factors.
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TL;DR: In an era of the Black Lives Matter movement and associated discord with law enforcement, understanding the contours of police--public relat... as mentioned in this paper, the public regularly encounter law enforcement.
Abstract: The public regularly encounter law enforcement. In an era of the Blacks Lives Matter movement and associated discord with law enforcement, understanding the contours of police--public relat...
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TL;DR: For instance, this article found that the likelihood of both a black and Hispanic resident being obese increases as the violent crime rate rises in a neighborhood, controlling for both individual and neighborhood factors.
Abstract: Dwelling in a violence-plagued neighborhood may amplify obesity by engendering psychological distress or by cultivating a sedentary, homebound lifestyle. This relationship is speculated to be especially relevant for black and Hispanic citizens because they are much more likely than whites to live in violence-beleaguered neighborhoods. Results from two multilevel analyses of 12,645 residents living in 34 New York City neighborhoods show that, while the violent crime rate does not have a direct effect on obesity, it does condition the relationships between race, ethnicity, and obesity. As the violent crime rate rises in a neighborhood, the probability of both a black and Hispanic resident being obese increases, controlling for both individual and neighborhood factors. The BMI of black and Hispanic residents is also higher in neighborhoods beset by violence. These findings suggest that violent crime may be a salient but unappreciated factor in explaining both racial and ethnic differences in obesity.
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TL;DR: The authors investigated whether the amount of weight given to an offender's prior criminal record in sentencing affects the likelihood of repeat offending and found that sanctioning repeat offenders more harshly than first-time offenders for similar offenses has little effect on attenuating repeat offending.
Abstract: Debate persists as to the amount of influence criminal history should have in determining the severity of imposed legal sanction for a criminal offense. One position maintains that the punishment for repeat and first-time offenders convicted for the same type of offense should be similar, whereas an alternative viewpoint argues that the state should sanction repeat offenders more harshly. We contribute to this discourse by investigating whether the amount of weight given to an offender’s prior criminal record in sentencing affects the likelihood of repeat offending. Although initial findings showed that a substantive negative bivariate relationship existed at the county level between the weight-accorded prior criminal record in sentencing and repeat offending, this association disappeared in a more sophisticated nonlinear multilevel analysis. Our findings suggest that sanctioning repeat offenders more harshly than first-time offenders for similar offenses has little effect on attenuating repeat offending ...
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