NCJ Number
100965
Journal
Journal of Drug Issues Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Dated: (Winter 1986) Pages: 91-106
Date Published
1986
Length
16 pages
Annotation
This report describes the drug use and crime of 286 active women narcotics users interviewed on the streets of Miami, Florida in a two-stage project.
Abstract
The relationship between drug use and crime among women has been given minimal research attention, and the few studies that have been undertaken have relied on arrests to indicate crimes, or have interviewed only institutionalized women or very small street samples. The first cohort, studied during 1977-78, were heavily involved with a wide variety of drugs and were extremely active in property crimes, vice offenses and drug sales. The second cohort, interviewed during 1983-84, displayed substantially different patterns of both drug use and crime. These differences are analyzed in relationship to changes in drug availability, drug use fads, legislation, law enforcement practices, and historical circumstance. (Author abstract)