NCJ Number
85448
Date Published
1981
Length
11 pages
Annotation
People 25 years of age and under comprise 73.7 percent of those charged with drug offenses in the 1980 Massachusetts sample compared to 76.3 percent in both the 1979 and 1978 samples.
Abstract
The report analyzes the 4-week sample of statistics on defendants who were arraigned for drug offenses in superior, district, and juvenile Massachusetts courts. Data cover age at arraignment, residence by region, substance by drug class, drug class by residential region, simultaneous offenses, type of controlled substance offense, and distributors by drug class.