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Drugs and Crime: Studies
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Drugscope is one of the UK's leading centres of expertise on drugs, created by the merger of the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependency (ISDD) and the Standing Conference on Drug Abuse (SCODA). It includes Drugsearch, an online drugs encyclopaedia, along with other publications on UK drug policy.
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The fact is that studies of the temporal sequencing of drug abuse and crime suggest that criminal activities generally precede drug use (11). For example, a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of prison inmates found that approximately half the inmates who had used a major drug, and about three-fifths of those who used a major drug regularly, did not do so until after their first arrest for a nondrug crime, that is, "after their criminal career had begun" (Innes 1988:1-2). Similarly, more than half of local jail inmates who reported they were regular drug users in the survey discussed above said that their first arrest for a crime occurred an average of two years before their drug use (Harlow 1991:7). Indeed, as Chein et al. (1965:64-65) concluded, delinquency is not caused by drug abuse, but rather, "the varieties of delinquency tend to change to those most functional for drug use; the total amount of delinquency is independent of drug use."
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Over the four years of the study, there was some change in the form of reporting on drugs and crime. The number of in-depth feature articles as a proportion of the total increased significantly from 11 per cent in 1995 to 21 per cent in 1998.
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