The Fear of Crime in a Small Town

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony G. Poveda
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
American History ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Considerable Confusion

There has been in American history a myth that attributes virtue to small town life and evil and corruption to urban life. This myth has been on the decline in "Delta City,"* a small industrial town in California. The traditional myth allowed Delta City adults to perceive the source of deviance in their community in either external urban influences or in certain limited local groups ("hoods'). Their sudden realization that there was widespread drug use among youth constituted the first vital blow to this myth. This awareness opened a "Pandora's box," producing considerable confusion and anxiety over locat ing the sources of local deviance. The community's confusion and fear were reflected in its response to youthful drug use and crime.

Drug Use in American History

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
J. C. McWilliams
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
American History

Public History in Small-Town America

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Robbie Davis
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Public History ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local History ◽  
Small Organizations ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
Main Street ◽  
Small Museums

Small towns all across America embrace their local history through Museum on Main Street (MoMS), a special collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, state humanities councils, and rural historical organizations. The Smithsonian and state humanities councils expose communities everywhere to important national themes and encourage small organizations to use local collections, special exhibitions, local interpretation, and challenging discussions to guide their visitors to a better understanding of their community’s relationship to American history. The Museum on Main Street program serves as a model that can help public history practitioners across the country generate productive partnerships with small museums and cultural organizations.

The Native-Born Protestant Elite’s Bid for Control in the 1870s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Mitrani
Keyword(s):  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
City Government ◽  
Chicago Police Department ◽  
Business Elite ◽  
Chicago Police ◽  
The City

This chapter examines how the Chicago Police Department figured in the native-born Protestant elite's attempt to control urban life in the city during the 1870s. In the 1870s, it became increasingly clear that the promise of “free labor” would not be met. Native-born Protestant urban elites across the country felt as if the cities were slipping into the grasp of immigrant workers and unemployed vagrants. This chapter describes the efforts of Chicago's traditional native-born, Protestant urban elite to enforce stricter temperance laws, regulate economic life, especially construction, and gain tighter control over the municipal government itself. It begins with a discussion of the responses of Chicago's business elite and politicians, the city government, and the police to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 as well as to the fear of crime that gripped Chicago in the summer of 1872. It then considers the Committee of Seventy's attempts to control the police and their divided stance over temperance and concludes with an assessment of the power struggle in the Chicago Police Department that would continue through 1873.

Adolescent Drug Use in Three Small Rural Communities in the Rocky Mountain Region

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Swaim ◽  
Fred Beauvais ◽  
R. W. Edwards ◽  
E. R. Oetting
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Rocky Mountain Region ◽  
Twelfth Grade

Anonymous surveys of drug use were administered to eighth- and twelfth-grade students in three small rural communities and one mid-sized community in the Rocky Mountain region. Differences were found between the three small towns in both lifetime prevalence and the frequency of occurrence of different types of drug users, indicating that small rural communities are likely to develop idiosyncratic patterns of drug use. These differences were more evident among eighth-grade than among twelfth-grade students. Minimal differences were found between the combined small community sample and the urban sample. Use by small town youth, for some drugs, may even exceed that of students in urban communities, suggesting that youth from small communities no longer have lower use rates, at least in this region. Differences of use between seniors in the Rocky Mountain region (small town and urban communities combined) and the national senior survey [1] are relatively small, but significant, perhaps reflecting a regional pattern of drug involvement.

A Social History of American Drug Use

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Social History ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
American History ◽  
Current Period ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
History Of

The article reviews three cycles of drug use that have appeared in American history since the founding of our nation. Periods of greatly expanded drug use have followed each of our major national crises: the American Revolution, the Civil War and the Sixties. It is argued that drug use during these periods came to symbolize an independent, antinomial character ideal. After two to three decades of extreme proliferation, each of these periods has then been followed by a period in which drug use has been condemned and abstinence proffered as an exemplary character ideal. During these periods, drug use symbolized the excesses of individualism and the neglect of the commonweal. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of this analysis for the current period.

Artikel

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 229-247
Author(s):  
Pekka Hakkarainen ◽  
Leena Metso
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Postal Questionnaire ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Drinking Patterns ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
Drug And Alcohol ◽  
The Relationship

■ Aims This article reports the results of a population survey in autumn 2004. First, trends in drug use are studied by comparing the 2004 data with materials collected in the same way in 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2002. Secondly, the relationship between drug use and alcohol consumption is discussed. This latter aspect is of special interest in Finland today following the changes in the alcohol environment in spring 2004 (tax cuts on alcohol, the discontinuation of the import quota within the EU and from Estonia). If alcohol consumption increases, the question is will that have the effect of driving up the consumption of other substances (addition hypothesis) or on the contrary, will drug use decrease and be substituted by increased alcohol consumption (substitution hypothesis)? ■ Methods The data for the research were collected in a postal questionnaire in autumn 2004. A random sample of 3992 persons aged 15–69 was drawn from the central population register. A total of 2526 persons responded, giving a response rate of 63 per cent. In order to gain a clearer picture of the relationship between drug use and alcohol consumption, we have linked the data for 1998, 2002 and 2004 into one dataset comprising more than 7 000 respondents. ■ Results The tendency for drug use and experimenting to increase has slowed down since the turn of the millennium. The increase in alcohol sales and tourist imports is not driving up the level of drug use. However, this study lends support to the observations by Juha Partanen (Wet high (1994)) about the close links between drug use and alcohol consumption. In the urban life-styles of younger people the use of cannabis is interwoven with frequent clubbing and party-style drinking patterns. Another indication of the intertwining of drug and alcohol cultures is found in the group of mixed users, who not only drink heavily but also use various drugs and medicines. It would seem that the risk of drug use is increased by the early onset of binge drinking. ■ Conclusion There is as yet not enough evidence to confirm the addition hypothesis. However, given the close links of drug use with alcohol consumption, it certainly is a possibility that if alcohol consumption sharply increases, this might trigger an increase in drug use and experimenting, particularly among young people. The substitution hypothesis, on the other hand, does not seem very likely. On the contrary, it seems that drug use in Finland ties in rather closely with drinking to intoxication.

Drug Use by Small Town Mexican American Youth: A Pilot Study

1986 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Chavez ◽  
Fred Beauvais ◽  
E. R. Oetting
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Mexican American Youth

Records of Little Businesses as Sources of Social and Economic History

1945 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 151-158
Author(s):  
T. D. Clark
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Rural Businesses

Business records have a wide usefulness. First and foremost they tell the story of business itself, but they also record much that is of value to other fields of historical study.One of the best single sources for American social and economic history is the records of small-town or rural businesses. These institutions have had a vital place in the growth and expansion of the nation. Until recent years little systematic attention has been given to this aspect of American history. Historians have generalized about this subject, and time after time they have been content to quote as their sources material which long ago became trite.

Drug Use and Delinquent Behavior of Small Town and Rural Youth

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris A. Forslund
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Delinquent Behavior ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Fremont County ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
The Relationship

Little is known about the relationship between drug use and involvement in other types of delinquent activities among small town and rural youth. The findings presented here are based on responses to a self-report type questionnaire concerning delinquent acts administered to ninth through twelfth grade students at two high schools in Fremont County, Wyoming. The data indicate that there is a significant relationship between drug use and the commission of numerous other forms of delinquent behavior for both male and female students studied. In addition, the data lead to the conclusion that drug users tend to have poorer relationships with both their parents and the school than is the case with non-users.

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