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One of the great needs of students of the relationship between crime and alcohol is an accurate picture of the drinking behavior of persons during the commission of crime. Such a picture to be complete would not ony include those who were sober and those who had been drinking, but also to what degree those who had been drinking were under the influence of alcohol. One of the means of obtaining such information would be the survey technic in which judges, prosecutors, police officials, and criminals in penal institutions were asked their opinion. This would probably be very inaccurate since the thinking of the polled individuals would be clouded by certain particular cases which stood out in their minds. The only accurate method would be a survey of a number of individuals while they were in the act of committing a crime and an analysis of their blood or urine for the percent of alcohol present at that time. Such a program has been going on in the Columbus Police Department since 1945. This study presents a report of the urine alcohol concentration of 882 persons picked up during or immediately after the commission of a felony during the last two years. (March 1951 to March 1953.) Table 1 shows the number of persons arrested in each crime classification and the percent of those arrested in each crime class whose urine contained the following concentrations of alcohol: nil, .00 to .09 %, .10 to .19%, .20 to .29%, .30 to .39%, and .40% or over. The percent of those having .10% urine alcohol or more was also calculated because .10 % and over may be associated with the release of inhibitions. The analyses herein reported were made on urine specimens which were analyzed by simple distillation, an aliquot of the distillate being oxidized with standard potassium dichromate in sulfuric acid, the transmittance of the resulting colored solution measured in a photronic filter photometer, and the ethanol concentration determined from a previously calibrated graph.1

Alcohol and Crime: A Study of the Urine Alcohol Concentration Found in 882 Persons Arrested during or Immediately after the Commission of a Felony