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Fact Sheet: Drug-Related Crime

NCJ Number
149286
Author(s)
Amy Craddock Ph.D.; James J. Collins Ph.D.; Anita Timrots
Date Published
August 1994
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This document discusses the various ways that drugs and crimes are related.
Abstract

This Fact Sheet describes the various ways in which drugs and crime can be related and presents available statistics on drugs and crime from BJS and non-BJS sources. It discusses the methodological difficulties of estimating comprehensively the amount of crime that is related to drugs.