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Crime & Delinquency, Vol. 38, No. 4, 422-443 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/0011128792038004002

The Intersection of Drug Use and Criminal Behavior: Results from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse

Lana Harrison

Joseph Gfroerer

In 1991, questions on involvement in criminal behavior and being arrested and booked for a crime were added to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) to ascertain the relationship between drug use and criminal behavior. Analysis shows that drug use is a strong correlate of being booked for a criminal offense, but age is the more important correlate of criminal involvement. There were few differences in models predicting violent as opposed to property crime, although minority status was a more important predictor of violent crime, and poverty was a more important predictor of property crime. Cocaine use was the most important covariate of being booked for a crime in large metropolitan areas that were oversampled in the 1991 NHSDA.


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