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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Drug Issues. 2012 Jul;42(3):298–316. doi: 10.1177/0022042612456017

Table 4.

The Impact of Drug Use and Selling on the Incidence of Violence, Waves 4 to 9, Random-Effects Models

Violence Serious
violence
Attack with a
weapon
Hit someone to
hurt them
Gang or
posse fight
Throw
object
Forcibly
take money
Drug use 0.006* (0.003) 0.001 (0.001) −0.000 (0.000) 0.004** (0.002) 0.001 (0.001) 0.001 (0.001) 0.000 (0.000)
Drug selling 0.059*** (0.006) 0.026*** (0.002) 0.015*** (0.001) 0.018*** (0.003) 0.008*** (0.002) 0.013*** (0.002) 0.003*** (0.000)
Gang member 6.242*** (0.379) 3.324*** (0.163) 0.389*** (0.059) 2.151*** (0.215) 2.780*** (0.137) 0.832*** (0.128) 0.138*** (0.028)
Drug sell × Gang −0.003 (0.013) 0.019*** (0.005) −0.013*** (0.002) −0.004 (0.007) 0.037*** (0.005) −0.017*** (0.005) −0.005*** (0.001)
Age −0.053 (0.077) −0.034 (0.033) 0.008 (0.012) −0.020 (0.043) −0.045 (0.028) 0.015 (0.026) 0.004 (0.006)
Male 0.331 (0.244) 0.107 (0.095) 0.038 (0.035) 0.130 (0.146) 0.058 (0.079) 0.091 (0.074) 0.012 (0.015)
African American 0.396 (0.309) 0.187 (0.120) 0.055 (0.045) 0.081 (0.185) 0.117 (0.100) 0.125 (0.093) 0.016 (0.019)
Hispanic −0.048 (0.380) 0.067 (0.148) 0.022 (0.055) −0.182 (0.228) 0.052 (0.123) 0.062 (0.115) −0.007 (0.024)
(Constant) 1.395 (1.306) 0.685 (0.555) −0.107 (0.202) 0.733 (0.747) 0.843 (0.466) −0.242 (0.432) −0.066 (0.095)
R2 0.09 0.13 0.07 0.04 0.11 0.02 0.02
*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.