Using Booking Data to Model Drug User Arrest Rates: A Preliminary to Estimating the Prevalence of Chronic Drug Use

Public policy is often concerned with the size and characteristics of special populations that are difficult to reach in household surveys. Chronic drug users, who often live outside conventional households, provide the illustration motivating this paper. An alternative to household surveys is to qu...

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Main Author:	Rhodes, William (Author)
Contributors:	Kling, Ryan ; Johnston, Patrick
Format:	Electronic Article
Language:	English
Published:	2007
In:	Journal of quantitative criminology Year: 2007, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-22
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Keywords:	Model-based estimation Poisson mixture models Endogenous stratification Arrest rates Hard-to-reach populations Chronic drug use