Shooting Galleries and HIV Disease: Variations in Places for Injecting Illicit Drugs

Crime & DelinquencyPublished 1 January 1991

Lawrence J. Ouellet, Antonio D. Jimenez, Wendell A. Johnson, W. Wayne Wiebel

DOI10.1177/0011128791037001006

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Three types of shooting galleries—places where people inject illicit drugs—are identified, based on the authority relations that organize them, according to risk for the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus and the potential for risk reduction.

Abstract

Three types of shooting galleries—places where people inject illicit drugs—are identified, based on the authority relations that organize them. Shooting gallery distribution within Chicago is linked to variations in neighborhood political economies. Risk for the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the potential for risk reduction vary according to gallery type.

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