Drug Use as a Predictor of Rearrest or Failure to Appear: A User's Guide to the Machine-Readable Files and Documentation, Original Instruments, and Codebook

• NCJ Number: 146232
• Author(s): E D Wish
• Date Published: 1992
• Length: 103 pages
• Grant Number(s): 83-IJ-CX-K048
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Handbook

Annotation

These three volumes present background and coding information and the study instruments associated with a data set collected to estimate the prevalence of drug use and drug use trends among booked arrestees in New York City and to assess the relationship between drug use and crime. Data set archived by the NIJ Data Resources Program at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, located at URL http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacjd.

Abstract

The study was conducted before the use of crack became prevalent in New York City. Thus, the study may be used in conjunction with more recent studies to assess the impact of the use of crack on specific crime rates. This study also served as a preliminary study for the Drug Use Forecasting study, which is based on drug tests of thousands of booked arrestees in various cities across the United States annually since 1987. During a 6-month period in 1984, research staff obtained voluntary interview information and urine specimens from 6,406 male arrestees. Participation was voluntary. Also collected were police and court records of prior criminal behavior and experience with the criminal justice system, as well as records of the arrestee's current case, including court warrants, rearrests, and failures to appear. The data file includes all male arrestees approached by project staff. A total of 5,747 consented to an interview, and 4,851 of those interviewed provided a urine specimen. Tables, instrument, and codebook