The results in this paper relate to drug usage among males arrested in 1971 in six metropolitan areas of the country. Multivariate analysis of variance techniques are used to analyze the crime rate patterns within cohorts of drug users (i.e., those beginning drug use during the same time period) and also to analyze the differences in crime patterns across cohorts of drug users. The analysis compares drug users versus nonusers with regard to their overall arrest rates and also compares them with respect to “Serious Crimes Against The Person.”
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