A New Panel Dataset for Studies Using Substate Units of Analysis and Indicators of Drug Activity

2021 ◽  
pp. 107808742098454
Author(s):  
Dick Carpenter ◽  
Anthony Ward
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Health It ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
External Data ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Asset Forfeiture ◽  
The Relationship

This research note reports on the creation of a new panel dataset using multiple waves of substate estimates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. It also provides identifying information that contains state, place, and/or agency codes for merging additional datasets at levels below the state. The process for creating this dataset and for merging external data is described. This research note ends by providing an example analysis utilizing the panel dataset in combination with law enforcement personnel data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and forfeiture data from municipalities in Minnesota to analyze the relationship between civil asset forfeiture and crime.

Misogynistic Tweets Correlate With Violence Against Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-325
Author(s):  
Khandis R. Blake ◽  
Siobhan M. O’Dean ◽  
James Lian ◽  
Thomas F. Denson
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Multilevel Data ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
American States ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Online Misogyny

How online social behavior covaries with real-world outcomes remains poorly understood. We examined the relationship between the frequency of misogynistic attitudes expressed on Twitter and incidents of domestic and family violence that were reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We tracked misogynistic tweets in more than 400 areas across 47 American states from 2013 to 2014. Correlation and regression analyses found that misogynistic tweets were related to domestic- and family-violence incidents in those areas. A cross-lagged model showed that misogynistic tweets positively predicted domestic and family violence 1 year later; however, this effect was small. Results were robust to several known predictors of domestic violence. Our findings identify geolocated online misogyny as co-occurring with domestic and family violence. Because the longitudinal relationship between misogynistic tweets and domestic and family violence was small and conducted at the societal level, more research with multilevel data might be useful in the prediction of future violence.

Social Disorganization and Unfounded Sexual Assault Case Clearances

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine ◽  
Richard Tewksbury ◽  
Jay Corzine ◽  
Lin Huff-Corzine
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Disorganization ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
Residential Instability ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexual Assault Case ◽  
Research And Policy

Despite much research and policy development, it remains true that less than one half of all reported sexual assaults are cleared by arrest (Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], 2011). Compounding this issue, many sexual assaults are not cleared by an arrest, but rather by being classified as “unfounded” by law enforcement (Soulliere, 1994, 2005; Tellis & Spohn, 2008). Grounded in the social disorganization perspective, this article examines the relationships between case-related and extralegal community-level characteristics and use of the designation of unfounded by the police. Contrary to initial expectations, findings show that communities with higher levels of concentrated disadvantage, immigrant concentration, and residential instability are less likely to have sexual assaults deemed unfounded by law enforcement.

Policing and Publishing in Modernist 20th-Century America

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire A. Culleton
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
State Surveillance ◽  
State Force ◽  
The Relationship

For almost four decades, from 1936 to 1972, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, fueled by intense paranoia and fear, hounded and relentlessly pursued a variety of American writers and publishers in a staunch effort to control the dissemination of literature that he thought threatened the American way of life. In fact, beginning as early as the Red Scare of 1919, he managed to control literary modernism by bullying and harassing writers and artists at a time when the movement was spreading quickly in the hands of an especially young, vibrant collection of international writers, editors, and publishers. He, his special agents in charge, and their field agents worked to manipulate the relationship between state power and modern literature, thereby “federalizing,” to a point, political surveillance. There still seems to be a resurgence of brute state force that is omnipresent and going through all matters and aspects of our private lives. We are constantly under surveillance, tracked, and monitored when engaged in even the most mundane activities. The only way to counter our omnipresent state surveillance is to monitor the monitors themselves.

A Commentary From a Law Enforcement Perspective on The Witch-Hunt Narrative by Ross E. Cheit

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 967-978
Author(s):  
Kenneth V. Lanning
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
Catholic Priests ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Witch Hunt

As a result of his assignment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Behavioral Science Unit, the author consulted on and has firsthand knowledge of most of the cases discussed in Cheit’s book. He came to believe that there is a middle ground. Some of what victims allege may be true and accurate, some may be misperceived or distorted, some may be symbolic, and some may be contaminated or false. The problem and challenge, however, is to determine which is which. He basically agrees with much of what Cheit sets forth about seeds of truth in many allegations. He has concerns about some confusing and inconsistent definitions. What was and is referred to by many as the backlash can be confused with what Cheit refers to in his book as the witch-hunt narrative. Many professionals, including possibly Cheit, do not seem fully aware of the wide diversity of ways in which children are sexually victimized. The author believes that any delayed reporting and minimization of recent cases involving the Catholic priests and Penn Sate have more to do with inaccurate stereotypes perpetuated by child abuse idealists than some witch-hunt narrative. From a law enforcement perspective, more benefit would have come had Cheit’s extensive research focused more on documenting how allegations became so bizarre and inaccurate and less on the alleged far-ranging harm caused by the witch-hunt narrative. In the author’s opinion, it is that process and not the witch-hunt narrative that caused most of the long-term damage discussed.

Drug Use and Crime among Two Cohorts of Women Narcotics Users: An Empirical Assessment

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Inciardi ◽  
Anne E. Pottieger
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Drug Availability ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Drug Sales ◽  
Historical Circumstance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Minimal Research

The relationship between drug use and crime among women has been given minimal research attention, and the few studies that have been undertaken have relied on arrests to indicate crimes, or have interviewed only institutionalized women or very small street samples. This report describes the drug use and crime of 286 active women narcotics users interviewed on the streets of Miami, Florida in a two-stage project. The first cohort, studied during 1977–78, were heavily involved with a wide variety of drugs and were extremely active in property crimes, vice offenses and drug sales. The second cohort, interviewed during 1983–84, displayed substantially different patterns of both drug use and crime. These differences are analyzed in relationship to changes in drug availability, drug use fads, legislation, law enforcement practices, and historical circumstance.

scholarly journals Adolescent impulsiveness and use of alcohol and tobacco

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-382
Author(s):  
Mª del Carmen Pérez-Fuentes ◽  
José J. Gázquez ◽  
Mª del Mar Molero ◽  
Fernando Cardila ◽  
África Martos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
The State ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
The Relationship

Adolescence is characterized by premature experimentation with new experiences and sensations. These experiences sometimes include drugs, which even though legal and socially accepted, begin to have noticeable negative consequences to the adolescent’s development. In recent years, a decrease in use of tobacco by Spanish adolescents has been observed, but not in alcohol. One of the causes of initiation in drug use is impulsive personality or behavior. Thus the purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between impulsiveness and frequency of use of alcohol and tobacco in 822 students aged 13 to 18 years of age. The State Impulsivity Scale (SIS) and an ad hoc questionnaire on demographic characteristics and use of alcohol and tobacco were used for this. The results showed that students who stated they were users scored significantly higher on impulsivity. Thus detailed analysis of the profile of individuals with this risk factor could favor more adequate intervention program design.

scholarly journals Money, Agency, and Self-Care among Cisgender and Trans People in Sex Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Treena Orchard ◽  
Katherine Salter ◽  
Mary Bunch ◽  
Cecilia Benoit
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Internalized Stigma ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Cis And Trans ◽  
The Relationship

Many qualitative studies about the exchange of sex for money, drugs, and less tangible outcomes (i.e., social status) contend that this activity contributes to high levels of internalized stigma among people in sex work. The cis (n = 33) and trans people (n = 5) who participated in our project about health, violence, and social services acknowledged the stigma associated with sex work but were not governed by the dominant discourse about its moral stain. They shared nuanced insights about the relationship between sex work and self-respect as people who use their earnings to mitigate the struggles of poverty and ongoing drug use, and care for themselves more broadly. This study sheds new light on the ways that cis and trans people negotiate issues of money, agency, and self-care, contributing to the literature on consensual sex work that examines different aspects of stigma, safety, and health with a nuanced, non-binary gender analysis.

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