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
• Sale Source: Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: DCC

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.