Predicting Drug Arrest Rates: Conflict and Social Disorganization Perspectives

Crime and Delinquency - Tập 47 Số 1 - Trang 84-104 - 2001
Clayton Mosher

Tóm tắt

Using 1989 data on illegal drug possession and trafficking arrests and socioeconomic data from the 1990 census, this article presents a series of models of drug arrest rates for a sample of U.S. cities. Comparing predictions derived from social disorganization and conflict theories, the models demonstrate that the racial composition of these cities, even while controlling for economic deprivation variables, is the strongest predictor of drug arrest rates. In addition, and also consistent with conflict theory, a measure of police force strength exerts a significant positive effect on trafficking arrest rates.

Từ khóa


Tài liệu tham khảo

10.1111/j.1745-9125.1991.tb01081.x

Anderson, N., The Hobo

10.1111/j.1745-9125.1988.tb00839.x

10.1093/sf/69.1.53

10.2307/3096971

10.1177/0022427891028001004

Bertram, E., Drug war politics—The price of denial

Black, D., The behavior of law

Blalock, H., Toward a theory of minority group relations

10.2307/2095046

10.1111/j.1745-9125.1993.tb01119.x

Braithwaite, J., Inequality, crime, and public policy

Brownstein, H., 1991, Social Justice, 18, 85

Byrne, J., The social ecology of crime, 1

10.2307/2095542

Chaiken, J., Drugs and crime, 203

10.2307/3096929

Chambliss, W., Law, order and power

Chein, I., The Road to H

10.2307/800715

Christie, N., Crime control as industry: Toward gulags, western style

10.1086/227204

10.2307/2095446

10.1093/sf/68.2.489

Currie, E., Reckoning: Drugs, the cities and the American future

10.2307/2095648

Fagan, J., Drugs, crime and social isolation

Faris, R., Mental disorders in urban areas

10.2307/798943

Gaines, L., Drugs, crime and justice

Hagan, J., Crime and disrepute

10.1093/sf/70.4.1035

Helmer, J., Drugs and minority oppression

Hunt, D., Drugs and crime, 159

Inciardi, J., Drug control and the courts

Irwin, J., It's about time: America's imprisonment binge

10.2307/2095061

10.2307/2094716

Johnson, B., Drugs and crime, 9

10.2307/799220

10.1093/sf/75.2.619

10.2307/2096396

10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01101.x

10.1086/229381

10.1086/230754

10.1086/228084

10.1093/sf/64.1.119

Lockwood, D., Ethnicity, race, and crime—Perspectives across time and place, 212

Lusane, C., Pipe dream blues

10.1007/BF01063233

10.1111/j.1745-9125.1982.tb00450.x

10.2307/2095881

10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01111.x

Mieczkowski, T., Drugs, crime and justice, 193

10.1093/sf/70.1.165

Miller, J., Search and destroy: African American males in the criminal justice system

10.1093/sf/72.3.613

Musto, D., The American disease

10.2307/1142726

10.1093/sf/71.4.1001

Quinney, R., The social reality of crime

Quinney, R., Criminology

Reinerman, C., 1989, Contemporary Drug Problems, 16, 535

Reuter, P., Money from crime

Rosenfeld, R., The social ecology of crime, 116

10.2307/2095373

10.1086/228748

Sampson, R., Crime and inequality

10.2307/2090139

Shaw, C., Juvenile delinquency and urban areas

10.1093/sf/75.2.649

Skolnick, J., 1990, American Journal of Police, 9, 1

Smith, D., Communities and cities

Tonry, M., Malign neglect: Race, crime, and punishment in America

Turk, A., Criminality and the legal order

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Annual medical examiner data

U.S. Department of Justice, Crime in the United States

U.S. Department of Justice, Crime in the United States

U.S. Department of Justice, Correctional populations in the United States

Walker, S., The color of justice: Race, ethnicity, and crime in America

10.2307/2095577

10.1111/j.1533-8525.1980.tb00636.x

10.2307/2095649

Williams, T., The cocaine kids

10.2307/3053285

Wilson, W. J., The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass and public policy

Wilson, W. J., When work disappears: The world of the new urban poor, 10.2307/2152085

Zimmer, L., 1990, American Journal of Police, 9, 43

Zorbaugh, H., The gold coast and the slum