TY - JOUR AU - Khaleel, Hanan Abdulghafoor AU - Brown, Sabrina AU - Fleming, Steven AU - Christian, W. Jay PY - 2019/05/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Alcohol sale status and homicide victimization in Kentucky, 2005-2012: Is there a spatial association? JF - Geospatial Health JA - Geospat Health VL - 14 IS - 1 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.4081/gh.2019.747 UR - https://www.geospatialhealth.net/gh/article/view/747 SP - AB - <p>To date, the association between the alcohol sale status of decedents' residence and alcohol-related homicide victimization have not been studied as far as we know. The current study aims to: i) determine whether homicide victims who were residents of <em>wet</em> counties had higher odds of testing positive for alcohol than their counterparts in <em>moist</em> or <em>dry</em> counties after adjusting for confounders; ii) determine whether homicides and alcohol-related homicides tend to cluster spatially; iii) determine whether the aforementioned associations exist only in highly-populated counties. A multilevel logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the data on homicide victims in the Kentucky Violent Death Reporting System from 2005 to 2012. Spatial statistics were used to determine the spatial autocorrelation in rates of homicides and alcohol-related homicides. Overall, 944 homicide victims were included. The male to female ratio was 3:1. About 32.8% of homicide victims tested positive for alcohol. About 33.0% of homicide decedents who were residents in <em>wet</em> counties tested positive for alcohol compared to 32.5% of their counterparts in <em>moist</em>/<em>dry</em> counties. Residence in <em>wet</em> counties was associated with a statistically insignificant increase in the unadjusted odds ratio (OR) of alcohol-related homicide victimization (OR=1.20, 95% CI=0.81-1.77) as well as the adjusted odds (aOR=1.33, 95% CI=0.83-2.12). There was no association between population size and alcohol-related homicide rate.</p> ER -