Alcohol and Drugs, Delinquency and Crime: Looking Back to the Future
Description
A longitudinal birth cohort study of juvenile delinquency and adult crime among 4079 persons living in Wisconsin from age 6 to early adulthood. Data on police contacts and their dispositions were obtained from the police department and other agencies and other data were obtained by interviewing samples of the 1942 and 1949 cohorts. The 1955 Cohort data were brought up to 1989, recoded, and reanalyzed to determine the importance of alcohol and drug involvement in criminal career continuity.
Keywords
DRUG ABUSE AND CRIMEJUVENILE DELINQUENCYYOUTH_DRUG USEALCOHOLISM AND CRIMEYOUTH_ALCOHOL USE
1998Book
Author(s)Lyle W. Shannon
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333719121
LanguageEnglish
