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Drug-Related Crime

NCJ Number
149286
Date Published
August 1994
Annotation
This Fact Sheet describes the ways drugs and crime can be related and presents statistics on drugs and crime from BJS and non-BJS sources.
Abstract

This Fact Sheet describes the various ways in which drugs and crime can be related and presents available statistics on drugs and crime from BJS and non-BJS sources. It discusses the methodological difficulties of estimating comprehensively the amount of crime that is related to drugs.

Date Published: August 1, 1994