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Title: A Longitudinal Analysis of Drug Use and Youth Crime in the U.S.
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Harper, Cynthia Channing |
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Drug Use and Youth Crime in the U.S. Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Delinquency/Gang Activity; Disadvantaged, Economically; Drug Use; Illegal Activities; Incarceration/Jail; Substance Use; Youth Problems Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study investigates a U.S. cohort of male youth to measure the extent to which drug use accounts for criminal activity. While crime has shown persistent decreases overall in the past decade, it has become more concentrated among the young. Since the early eighties, crime is not only more common among youth, but it has also become more violent. Trafficking of illicit drugs has created a violent market, principally for distributors and sellers, and has involved increasingly younger individuals. Using individual-level data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the research follows a male youth cohort from the late seventies to early nineties to explore changing associations among drug use and incarceration over time. The panel survey oversamples economically disadvantaged population, including out-of-school-youth, who are at elevated risk of both drug use and criminal activity. |
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Harper, Cynthia Channing. "A Longitudinal Analysis of Drug Use and Youth Crime in the U.S." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997. |