Research and Public Policy Series
No. 52: Drugs and crime : a study of incarcerated male offenders
Toni Makkai and Jason Payne
ISBN 0 642 53819 0 ; ISSN 1326-6004
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology: 2003
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Abstract
This report examines the illegal drug using and criminal careers of male participants in the Drug Use Careers of Offenders (DUCO) project. DUCO surveyed 2,135 adult male offenders who were incarcerated in prisons in Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory in mid 2001.The study focuses on the development of the criminal career, drawing comparisons among regular offenders of different offence typologies, and comments on a variety of risk factors associated with offending. It explores the intersection of drug use and criminal behaviour and estimates that just over one third of all offenders causally attributed alcohol and/or illegal drugs to the offence/s for which they were incarcerated.
Contents
- Title, Contents and Acknowledgments (PDF 46kB)
- Executive summary (PDF 28kB)
- 1. Overview of drugs and crime (PDF 71kB)
- 2. Describing the offenders (PDF 59kB)
- 3. Regular property offenders (PDF 77kB)
- 4. Regular violent offenders (PDF 62kB)
- 5. Regular multiple offenders (PDF 66kB)
- 6. Regular fraud offenders (PDF 57kB)
- 7. Regular drug sellers (PDF 52kB)
- 8. Regular drug buyers (PDF 53kB)
- 9. Homicide offenders (PDF 53kB)
- 10. Non-regular offenders (PDF 52kB)
- 11. Drug market activity (PDF 49kB)
- 12. Risk factors (PDF 90kB)
- 13. Conclusions (PDF 25kB)
- Technical appendix (PDF 52kB)
- Reference list (PDF 32kB)
References
- Media release: One third of offenders blame illegal drugs or alcohol for their crime
- Summary paper: Key findings from the drug use careers of offenders (DUCO) study
- Fact sheet: Key findings from the Drug Use Careers of Offenders (DUCO) study
- Project information: Drug Use Carrers of Offenders
- Criminology topic: Alcohol and illicit drugs
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