Drug-Crime Connections

by Trevor Bennett , Katy Holloway

• ISBN13: 9780521687140
• ISBN10: 0521687144
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Drug-Crime Connections challenges the assumption that there is a widespread association between drug use and crime. Instead, it argues that there are many highly specific connections. Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway draw together in a single volume a wide range of findings from a study of nearly 5,000 arrestees interviewed as part of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) program. They investigate specific drug-crime connections and other topics, such as gender and drugs, ethnicity and drugs, gangs, guns, drug markets, and treatment needs.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction
Background	p. 3
Research Methods	p. 18
Drug Misuse Among Criminals
Drug Misuse Among Arrestees	p. 37
Drugs and Health	p. 60
Drug-Crime Affinities
Drugs and Crime	p. 87
Disaggregating the Drug-Crime Relationship	p. 112
Multiple Drug Use and Crime	p. 134
Users' Perceptions of the Drug-Crime Link	p. 151
Special Topics
Gender, Drugs, and Crime	p. 173
Ethnicity, Drugs, and Crime	p. 190
Gangs and Gang Members	p. 211
Gun Possession and Use	p. 234
Drug Markets	p. 248
Assisted Desistance and Treatment Needs	p. 268
International Comparisons	p. 291
Conclusions
Conclusions	p. 315
References	p. 333
Index	p. 351
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