Drugs and Criminal Assaults by Adolescents: A Replication Study

Tinklenberg, Jared R.; Murphy, Peggy W.; Murphy, Patricia Linda; Pfefferbaum, Adolf

doi:10.1080/02791072.1981.10471582

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“…The results revealed 48% of the youth in this sample ever smoked marijuana 1 year prior to their arrest, and that on average, they smoked marijuana once every 2 to 3 weeks. This finding is consistent with some early research on youth who commit sexual crimes (Tinklenberg et al, 1981; Vinogradov et al, 1988). Comparatively, among juvenile non-sexual offenders ( N = 278), 61% report ever having used marijuana and 21% reported they used marijuana 100 or more times (Dembo, Wareham, Greenbaum, Childs, & Schmeidler, 2009).…”

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“…However, research has not conclusively identified the prevalence of substance use among youth who commit sexual crimes, as most of the research is dated; Hsu and Starzynski (1990) indicated that approximately 50% of their sample engaged in substance use. Although these findings correspond withinitial research on substance use rates (Mio et al, 1986; Tinklenberg, Murphy, Murphy, & Pfefferbaum, 1981; Van Ness, 1984; Vinogradov, Dishotsky, Doty, & Tinklenberg, 1988), it may be an over estimation of prevalence (Lightfoot & Barbaree, 1993). Certainly, earlier rates may not accurately reflect conventional drug-related activities of youth sexual offenders today.…”

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Associations Between Substance Use in Commission of Sexual Crimes and Offense Characteristics Among Youth: Mitigating Effects of Substance Use Treatment

Yoder

Caserta

2016

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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The small extant research base on substance use and youth sexual offending has very few descriptive details. Furthermore, research has yet to test associations between the use of substances in the commission of sexual crimes and offense-related characteristics and how substance use treatment can mitigate these effects. In a sample of residentially housed youth adjudicated of a sexual crime ( N = 332), prevalence patterns are broken down by type of substance use behavior. Sequential regression models are run to test the associations between substance use prior to a sexual crime and number of victims, sexual deviance, and non-sexual criminality. Substance use treatment is tested as a mitigating factor in these relationships. Results reveal high levels of family substance use, and high rates of alcohol, marijuana, and other substance use. There were associations between substance use prior to sexual criminality and sexual deviance and non-sexual criminality. Substance use treatment reduced the effects of substance use on non-sexual criminality. Research and treatment implications are offered.

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Section: Prevalence Of Substance Usesupporting

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Associations Between Substance Use in Commission of Sexual Crimes and Offense Characteristics Among Youth: Mitigating Effects of Substance Use Treatment

Yoder

Caserta

2016

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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“…volume; Johnson et al 1985), school violence (Gold and Moles 1978), and violence among adolescents (Tinklenberg et al 1981;Hartstone and Hansen 1984;Elliott, Huizinga, and Ageton 1985;Fagan, Piper, and Moore 1986;Johnson et al 1986a;White, Pandina, and LaGrange 1987;Fagan 1989). Goldstein (1985) found that drug use and drug trafficking were etiological factors in violence, while McBride (1981) and Goldstein et al (1989) found that systemic factors in drug dealing were causal factors in homicides.…”

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Intoxication and Aggression

Fagan¹

1990

Crime and Justice

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Evidence of an association between use of illicit substances and aggressive behavior is pervasive. But the precise causal mechanisms by which aggression is influenced by intoxicants are still not well understood. Research on intoxication and aggression often has overlooked the nonviolent behavior of most substance users, controlled use of substances, and the evidence from other cultures of a weak or nonexistent relation between substance use and aggression. There is only limited evidence that ingestion of substances is a direct, pharmacological cause of aggression. The temporal order of substance use and aggression does not indicate a causal role for intoxicants. Research on the nexus between substance use and aggression consistently has found a complex relation, mediated by the type of substance and its psychoactive effects, personality factors and the expected effects of substances, situational factors in the immediate settings where substances are used, and sociocultural factors that channel the arousal effects of substances into behaviors that may include aggression. Contemporary explanations of the intoxication-aggression relation offer only limited explanatory power in view of the occurrence of controlled use of substances, the mutability of cultural norms, and cross-cultural differences. Among contemporary explanations of violence and aggression, few have been more enduring than the presumed effects of intoxication from drugs or alcohol. There is pervasive evidence of an association between substance use and aggressive behavior. For example, drug abuse has been found to be a critical factor in homicide (Wolfgang and

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“…Furthermore, those studies that have examined these associations have had mixed results (Altschuler and Brounstein 1991;Hartstone and Hansen 1984;Huizinga, Menard, and Elliott 1989;Tinklenberg et al 1981). The purpose of this study was to examine the proxiThe preparation of this article was supported in part by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA 41101 and DA/AA 03395), the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH 50778), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP 96-MU-FX-0012).…”

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Illegal Acts Committed by Adolescents Under the Influence of Alcohol and Drugs

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Tice²,

Loeber³

et al. 2002

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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This study examined the proximal effects of alcohol and drug use on adolescent illegal activity. Four years of longitudinal data from the Pittsburgh Youth Study were analyzed for 506 local male adolescents. Participants reported committing offenses against persons more often than general theft under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Aggressive acts were more often related to self-reported acute alcohol use than to marijuana use. Those who reported committing illegal acts under the influence reported committing offenses with other people and being arrested more often than those who did not. Offenses under the influence were more prevalent among heavier alcohol and drug users, more serious offenders, more impulsive youth, and youth with more deviant peers. There were no significant interaction effects of alcohol and drug use with impulsivity or deviant peers in predicting whether illegal acts were committed under the influence. The association between drug use and illegal activity during adolescence is complex.

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Drugs and Criminal Assaults by Adolescents: A Replication Study

Cited by 27 publications

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Associations Between Substance Use in Commission of Sexual Crimes and Offense Characteristics Among Youth: Mitigating Effects of Substance Use Treatment

Associations Between Substance Use in Commission of Sexual Crimes and Offense Characteristics Among Youth: Mitigating Effects of Substance Use Treatment

Intoxication and Aggression

Illegal Acts Committed by Adolescents Under the Influence of Alcohol and Drugs

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