RT Article
T1 The imprisoned nonviolent drug offender: Specialized martyr or versatile career criminal?
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 27
IS 2
SP 167
OP 182
A1 Delisi, Matt
LA English
YR 2003
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764275179
AB Some observers oppose imprisoning nonviolent drug offenders because they view incarceration as costly and such persons as generally benign. The careercriminal literature has established that perpetrators, including drug violators, commit an array of offenses. The current study merges these debates using a sample of 500 arrested adults selected from an urban jail in the western United States. Drug offenders amassed a much more extensive arrest history than other suspects net the effects of age, race, sex, prison history, and arrest onset. Drug offenders are quite versatile and do not conform to the image of specialized violators who are nominally criminal.
K1 Drug Court
K1 Property Crime
K1 Criminal Justice System
K1 Criminal Justice
K1 Cocaine
DO 10.1007/BF02885692