Toward a Drugs and Crime Research Agenda for the 21St Century

By Hart, Sarah V.

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Title:	Toward a Drugs and Crime Research Agenda for the 21St Century
Author:	Hart, Sarah V.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


Citation APA MLA Chicago Hart, S. V. (n.d.). Toward a Drugs and Crime Research Agenda for the 21St Century. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Legal Reference Publication

Excerpt
Introduction: For criminal justice practitioners who deal with drugs and crime day in and day out, the reality of the drugs-crime nexus is indisputable. In a manual designed to help police chiefs and sheriffs control drug abuse, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) stated unequivocally its belief in ?a significant though complex? relationship between drug abusers and criminal offenders. Change one group, IACP proposed, and you change the other: ?If there is a reduction in the number of people who abuse drugs in your community, there will be a reduction in the commission of certain types of crime in your community.? When IACP released its manual more than a decade ago, researchers already were confirming what practitioners believed and documenting the relationship between drugs and crime. Public policy and programs were and continue to be developed on the basis of this knowledge. But although researchers and practitioners alike knew the relationship existed, the nature of that relationship eluded them then and continues to elude them today.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 At the Intersection of Public Health and Criminal Justice Research on Drugs and Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Research on Drugs-Crime Linkages: The Next Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 The Drugs-Crime Wars: Past, Present, and Future Directions in Theory, Policy, and Program Interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Appendix A: Summary of Proceedings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Appendix B: Forum Agenda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Appendix C: List of Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199