Author ORCID Identifier
Armstrong - https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6003-0031
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-21-2009
Publication Title
Crime & Delinquency
Volume
59
Issue
3
First Page
443
Last Page
467
Abstract
To date, research testing the community characteristics associated with methamphetamine production and use has found that the community-level sociodemographic predictors of methamphetamine production and use vary from those of drug use in general. In this study, the authors furthered the research in this area using data from all 102 counties in Illinois. These data included measures of sociodemographic characteristics taken from the U.S. census, measures of methamphetamine production and use, and a measure of arrests for controlled-substance violations. Negative binomial regression models showed that poverty and the racial and ethnic compositions of communities were the strongest and most consistent predictors of the authors’ methamphetamine measures. The results also showed that the sociodemographic characteristics associated with methamphetamine measures were different in important ways from those associated with arrests for controlled-substance violations.
Recommended Citation
Armstrong, T. & Armstrong, G.S. (2009). A multivariate analysis of the socio-demographic predictors of methamphetamine production and use. Crime and Delinquency, 59(3), 443-467. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128709340841
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in Crime and Delinquency on August 21, 2009, available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128709340841
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