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Drugs and Crime: The Results of the Second Developmental Stage of the NEW-ADAM Programme

NCJ Number
186280
Author(s)
Trevor Bennett
Date Published
2000
Length
166 pages
Annotation
This British report provides an assessment, underpinned by urine testing, of recent drug consumption by suspected offenders arrested by the British police.
Abstract
Based on fieldwork in four locations in England, this research builds on earlier research conducted in five sites (Home Office Research Study 183, "Drugs and Crime: The Results of Research on Drug Testing and Interviewing Arrestees"). Two of the five sites addressed in the current study, Nottingham and Sunderland, were also involved in the earlier research, so it is possible to discuss changes in drug use by offenders over the period 1997-99 for these two sites. This program carries the acronym NEW-ADAM (New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring). NEW-ADAM is intended to assist in tracking the progress of the Government's drug strategy. The primary methods of data collection were structured interviews and the collection of urine specimens. Data presented in this report encompass the results of urine testing, self-reported drug use, expenditure on drugs, illegal income, self-reported crime, drug-related crime, health, injecting behavior, treatment, drug markets, and weapons and guns. 19 tables and 43 references