| There are numerous studies on the nexus between drugs and crime, but few on
the relationship between retail drug market behavior and other criminal
offenses, particularly in a comparative framework across diverse geographic
regions. Using the newly redesigned Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM)
program database, this study examines concatenated probability samples of
38,546 offenders who were arrested and interviewed during 2000 and 2001 in
34 metropolitan areas in 26 states in the continental and off-shore United
States. In particular, we investigate models that use self-reported and
biologically assayed drug use at the time of arrest, official arrest record
information, and other interview data to account for differences among
arrestees in terms of their violent offenses, property offenses,
drug-related offenses, and various combinations of offenses. Multinomial
logit models, with attended areal nesting effects, will be used to examine
the differentiated associations between criminal offenses and behavioral
attributable characteristics such as arrest history, hard-core drug use,
other drug and alcohol use patterns, frequencies and circumstances of buying
drugs, race and ethnicity, age and other control variables. These results
will be presented in the context of the diversity of drug market
characteristics geographically. We will review implications for strategies
for controlling criminal activities.
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Updated 05/20/2006