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Author: Thompson, Melissa
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1. Thompson, Melissa
Uggen, Christopher
Dealers, Thieves, and the Common Determinants of Drug and Nondrug Illegal Earnings
Criminology 50,4 (November 2012): 1057-1087.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2012.00286.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Society of Criminology
Keyword(s): Crime; Drug Use; Earnings; Income; Modeling, Fixed Effects; National Supported Work Demonstration Project

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Drug crime often is viewed as distinctive from other types of crime, meriting greater or lesser punishment. In view of this special status, this article asks whether and how illegal earnings attainment differs between drug sales and other forms of economic crime. We estimate monthly illegal earnings with fixed-effects models, based on data from the National Supported Work Demonstration Project and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Although drug sales clearly differ from other types of income-generating crime, we find few differences in their determinants. For example, the use of cocaine or heroin increases illegal earnings from both drug and nondrug crimes, indicating some degree of fungibility in the sources of illegal income. More generally, the same set of factors—particularly legal and illegal opportunities and embeddedness in criminal and conventional networks—predicts both drug earnings and nondrug illegal earnings.
Bibliography Citation
Thompson, Melissa and Christopher Uggen. "Dealers, Thieves, and the Common Determinants of Drug and Nondrug Illegal Earnings." Criminology 50,4 (November 2012): 1057-1087.
2. Thompson, Melissa
Woo, Hyeyoung
Gendering Depression, Drugs, and Crime Among Young Adults
Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2012
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Society of Criminology
Keyword(s): Crime; Depression (see also CESD); Drug Use; Gender Differences; Substance Use

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Previous literature suggests that there are ‘gendered responses’ to psychological distress: Females tend to experience higher levels of depressive symptoms while males tend to exhibit disruptive behaviors (e.g., substance use). While the link substance use and criminal offending has been established, the question of whether or not the gendered responses have different influences on committing a crime has not been well understood. This study identifies the gendered effects of depression and substance abuse on self-reported criminal behavior focusing on young adults. Using data from multiple rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort (N=8,984), we performed a lagged logistic regression model to estimate probability of committing crimes in their early twenties associated with depression and substance use during their teens. Our preliminary results indicate that earlier experience of depression and substance use are associated with committing crime later. However, they also revealed gendered effects of depression. While the effects of depression on crime are stronger for females, no gender difference in the link between substance use and crime was found. In order to better understand the gendered effects, we also perform multivariate logit models with various mediators/moderators progressively adjusted.
Bibliography Citation
Thompson, Melissa and Hyeyoung Woo. "Gendering Depression, Drugs, and Crime Among Young Adults." Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2012.