ISSN:0735-3936    

DOI:10.1002/bsl.2370030301

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe addition of a psychologist to its staff provided the United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control with an opportunity to add survey technology to its traditional oversight information gathering armamentarium. Surveys of state and local drug abuse program managers, law enforcement and prosecutorial officials, state attorneys general, and members of congress itself provided the Select Committee with information that supplemented that obtained by hearings and congressionally sponsored conferences. Answers to different questions in the different surveys were in general agreement with each other and with information obtained through hearings, providing a rough measure of the reliability and utility of the technique for oversight purposes. Survey results were incorporated in committee reports and are credited with providing information necessary to sustain the Select Committee's recommendations for drug abuse and control to the Congress.

ISSN:0735-3936    

DOI:10.1002/bsl.2370030302

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractThis article provides a theoretical analysis of illegal drug use, encorporating various sociological perspectives. It addresses issues involving the social determinants of licit versus illicit use, the social etiology of illicit use, and alternative societal responses.

ISSN:0735-3936    

DOI:10.1002/bsl.2370030303

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractThe research literature investigating criminality and narcotics addiction is reviewed for evidence concerning the nature of their etiologic relationship. An emphasis is placed upon empirical investigations published after 1960 and upon existing literature reviews of this field. Citing various approaches and paradigms utilized by prior researchers, an attempt is made to converge qualitatively distinct lines of research to a common conclusion. It is shown that (1) pre‐ and post‐addiction studies show increases in property crime contiguous with the onset of addiction; (2) first arrest generally precedes narcotics addiction; (3) pre‐ and during treatment studies, as well as during and post‐treatment studies, show relative decreases in property crimes during methadone maintenance; and (4) property crime increases monotonically with level, or intensity, of narcotics use throughout the addiction career when analyzed in aggregate form. It is concluded that, although a substantial number of addicts are criminally involved prior to addiction, addiction is a criminogenic agent in contemporary American society and that narcotics use levels are the most direct and plausible explanation for the high aggregate levels of property crime exhibited by research subjects when addicted. In addition, prescriptions for future research methodologies are di

ISSN:0735-3936    

DOI:10.1002/bsl.2370030304

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractCocaine use in the United States has currently reached epidemic proportions. This has resulted in syndromes of intoxication, overdose, and withdrawal, meeting all DMS‐III criteria for a substance that can cause dependence as well as abuse syndromes. This paper reviews the current epidemiology of cocaine, its history and pharmacology with major focus on clinical syndromes. This is followed by a review of the current knowledge of the relationship between cocaine and violence and the forensic‐psychiatric issues surrounding coca

ISSN:0735-3936    

DOI:10.1002/bsl.2370030305

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractThis paper outlines some types of psychological disturbances found to occur in narcotics agents who use undercover investigative methods. Research results and other clinical findings dismiss popular notions of multiple personalities as a mental injury caused by prolonged role played pseudoidentities. Coping strategies for dealing with certain paranoid reactions are seen as potential sources of contamination in the gathering of evidence of criminal activity. Issues related to questions of health versus operative talents in selecting for personal suitability for undercover work are presented.

ISSN:0735-3936    

DOI:10.1002/bsl.2370030306

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractThis paper explores the interface between psychology and the law as it relates to the informed consent doctrine and adolescents' legal competency to make informed decisions regarding birth control and pregnancy terminations. The complicated developmental, clinical, ethical, and legal issues have stimulated the courts to express their need for empirical evidence on the issue. To date, no such investigation has been reported in the literature. A research strategy is proposed which could address the courts' need for substantive data upon which to base legal decisions regarding adolescents' competency to reach reproductive decisions.

ISSN:0735-3936    

DOI:10.1002/bsl.2370030307

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY