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I r <br /> I <br /> However, the Minneapolis study found a much stronger relationshi <br /> sexually oriented businesses and crime rates. A crime index wasp between <br /> el robbery, burglary, rape and assault. The rate of crime constructed including <br /> businesses was then compared to crime rates inin areas near sexually oriented <br /> I <br /> following conclusions:1 other areas. The study drew the <br /> 1• The effects of sexually oriented businesses <br /> positive and significant regardless of which control vvariable Mme rate index is <br /> is used. <br /> 2. Sexually oriented businesses continue to be associate <br /> crime rates, even when the control variables' impacts are consideredwith higher <br /> 1 simultaneously. a <br /> -.1 According to the statistical analysis conducted in the Minneapolis study, the <br /> addition of one sexually oriented business to a census tract ar <br /> in the overall crime rate index in that area bys g ea will cause an increase <br /> even if all other social factors remain unchangedcrimes per thousand people per year <br /> 4 <br /> ilk <br /> St. Paul <br /> In 1978, the St. Paul Division of Planning <br /> Planning board conducted a study and the Minnesota Crime Control <br /> alcohol-oriented adult entertainment businessesrelationship between sex-oriented and <br /> looked at crime rates per thousand and median houansineighborhood blight. This study <br /> study combined. sex-ong riented <br /> over time as indices of <br /> neighborhood deterioration. Thesuggestive <br /> entad and alcohol-oriented <br /> businesses, so its conclusions are only m 9gestive of the effects of sexually oriented <br /> Neve theless, the study reached the following important <br /> conclusions: p t <br /> 1. There is a statistically significant correlation between <br /> adult businesses and neighborhood deterioration. the location of <br /> ill <br /> -7- <br />