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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2016 Jan;20(1):215–224. doi: 10.1007/s10461-015-1111-1

Table IV.

Macrostructural factors associated with client perpetrated violence (CPV) in the past 6 months

Variable Total (N=496) No recent CPV (n=470) Recent CPV (n=26) X2, p-value uOR [95% CI]

Interview site
    Ciudad Juárez 268 (54%) 259 (55%) 9 (35%) 4.17, 0.04 0.43 [0.19-0.99]
    Tijuana-Zona Roja 152 (31%) 138 (29%) 14 (54%) 6.95, 0.01 2.81 [1.27-6.22]
    Tijuana-Outside Zona Roja 76 (15%) 73 (16%) 3 (12%) 0.78b 0.71 [0.21-2.42]

Social disorder

Seeing torn down buildings 185 (37%) 170 (36%) 15 (58%) 4.88, 0.03 2.41 [1.08-5.36]

Policing

Police/military checkpoints in the colonia/area 255 (52%) 240 (51%) 15 (58%) 0.42, 0.52 1.30 [0.59-2.89]

Regular police/military patrols in the neighborhood 440 (89%) 415 (89%) 25 (96%) 0.34b 3.13 [0.42-23.60]

Seeing sex workers arrested 271 (55%) 253 (54%) 20 (77%) 5.31, 0.02 2.86 [1.13-7.25]

Community violence

Seeing violence towards sex workers from clients 217 (44%) 195 (42%) 22 (85%) 18.62, <0.01 7.76 [2.63-22.86]

Seeing street violence 292 (59%) 270 (57%) 22 (85%) 7.51, 0.01 4.07 [1.38-12.01]

Seeing members of the mafia/cartels/narcos 188 (38%) 172 (37%) 16 (62%) 6.51, 0.01 2.77 [1.23-6.24]

IQR=interquartile range

a Wilcoxon Rank Sum

b

Fischer's exact