DRUG USAGE AND ARREST CHARGES, A STUDY OF DRUG USAGE AND ARREST CHARGES AMONG ARRESTEES IN SIX METHOPOLITAN AREAS OF THE UNITED STATES

• NCJ Number: 7838
• Author(s): W C ECKERMAN; J V BATES
• Date Published: 1971
• Length: 408 pages
• Grant Number(s): J-70-35
• Corporate Author: Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

NATIONAL RESEARCH SURVEY IN WHICH ARRESTEES WERE INTERVIEWED AND CLINICALLY TESTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DRUG USE AND SERIOUS CRIME.

Abstract

THE RESEARCHERS ASSEMBLED DATA ON THE DRUG USAGE HISTORY AND CRIMINAL RECORDS OF A SAMPLE GROUP OF ARRESTEES FROM SIX CITIES. IT WAS FOUND THROUGH STATISTICAL ANALYSIS THAT ALTHOUGH DRUG USERS HAD HIGHER ARREST RATES, THEY WERE LESS OFTEN INVOLVED IN CRIMES OF VIOLENCE THAN ARRESTEES WHO DID NOT USE DRUGS. THERE WAS, HOWEVER, AN UNUSUALLY HIGH CONCENTRATION OF SERIOUS CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON AMONG AMPHETAMINE USERS WHEN THEY WERE COMPARED TO THE USERS OF OTHER DRUGS.