A Seattle ordinance (Ordinance No. 121952, Oct. 3, 2005) imposes restrictions on strip clubs. Three clubs are working for Referendum 1, which would undo the ordinance. On Friday they released a study by UC Santa Barbara professor Daniel Linz that found that strip clubs occasioned fewer calls to police than some nearby bars and other businesses. (Strip clubs do not serve alcohol.) The Seattle Times: Local News: Study contends strip clubs aren't a magnet for crimes, Seattle Times, Oct. 14, 2006.
Dr. Linz, a psychologist whose appointments are in the Department of Communication and the Law and Society Program, has done work "empirically testing assumptions made by the law and legal actors in the area of the First Amendment. His research spans the topics of media violence, pornography and sexual depictions and pretrial publicity, news and race." Earlier studies related to the strip club controversy are:
- Linz, D., Land, K., Williams, J. Ezell, M. & Paul, B. (2004). An Examination of the Assumption that Adult businesses are Associted with Crime in Surrounding Areas: A Secondary Effects Study in Charlotte, North Carolina. Law and Society Review.
- Paul, B., Linz, D. & Shafer, B.J. (2001). Government regulation of "adult" businesses through zoning and anti-nudity ordinances: Debunking the legal myth of negative secondary effects. Communication Law and Policy, 6. 2, 355-391.
- Linz, D., Blumenthal, E., Donnerstein, E., Kunkel, D. Shafer, B.J. & Lichtenstein, A. (2000). Testing Legal Assumptions Regarding the Effects of Dancer Nudity and Proximity to Patron on Erotic Expression. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 5, 507-533.
- Robert Bruce McLaughlin, Daniel G. Linz, & Mike Yao, Summarizing and Evaluating Studies and Reports that Examine Whether Adult Businesses Cause Adverse Secondary Effects (prepared on behalf of the Association of Club Executives (ACE) and the Free Speech Coalition) (no date (that I found), but the latest studies summarized seem to be from 2004).
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