NCJ Number
104804
Journal
Adolescence Volume: 21 Issue: 84 Dated: (Winter 1986) Pages: 951-960
Date Published
1986
Length
10 pages
Annotation
Ninety-one delinquent adolescents were interviewed with respect to their personal and family drug use and criminal behavior.
Abstract
No significant gender differences with respect to drug use were found. Females, however, committed more crimes against property than did males. The drug use-delinquency association was explored, and findings indicated that subjects saw a stronger causal relationship between drug use and subsequent criminal behavior than was found in the current study or past research. A multifactorial association between drug abuse and delinquency behaviors as part of a spectrum of sociopathic personality development was supported. (Publisher abstract)