DRUG HISTORIES AND CRIMINALITY - SURVEY OF INMATES OF STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, JANUARY 1974

• NCJ Number: 41086
• Author(s): W I BARTON
• Date Published: 1977
• Length: 106 pages
• Contract Number(s): 271-75-1016
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare
• Corporate Author: Drug Enforcement Admin
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

IN THIS SURVEY, 10,400 INMATES OF STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES WERE INTERVIEWED CONCERNING THEIR HISTORY AND EXTENT OF DRUG CONSUMPTION. THE DATA IS COLLATED, ANALYZED, AND EXTRAPOLATED TO REPRESENT 191,400 INMATES.

Abstract

FINDINGS SHOW THAT 61 PERCENT OF THE INMATES STATED THEY HAD USED DRUGS SUCH AS HEROIN, METHADONE, COCAINE, MARIJUANA, AMPHETAMINES, OR BARBITURATES ILLICITLY. THE RESULTS ARE BROKEN DOWN BY SERIOUSNESS AND TYPE OF OFFENSE COMMITTED, FREQUENCY OF PRIOR DRUG USE, TYPE AND AMOUNT OF DRUG CONSUMPTION, AND WHETHER THE OFFENSE WAS COMMITTED UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS. MANY STATISTICAL TABLES ARE INCLUDED AS WELL AS AN EXTENSIVE NARRATIVE ANALYSIS....MSP