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NARCOTIC ADDICTION AND CRIME
Author(s) -
McGLOTHLIN WILLIAM H.,
ANGLIN M. DOUGLAS,
WILSON BRUCE D.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1978.tb00094.x
Subject(s) - addiction , narcotic , psychology , criminal behavior , narcotic drugs , sample (material) , psychiatry , criminology , chemistry , chromatography
Arrest rates and self‐reported criminal behavior are examined as a function of frequency of narcatic use during the addiction careers first daily narcatic use to last daily use) of a sample of 690 admissions to the California Civil Addict Program. Thirty‐five percent of the addiction career non‐incarcerated time involved less‐than‐daily or no narcatic use. During these periods. arrest rates for property crimes and self‐reported criminal behavior were substantially lower than for periods of daily use. This approach to examining the relationship between crime and narcatic addiction avoids several of the methodological problems encountered in pre‐ and pastaddiction and pre‐ and pasttreatment studies .