Effects of Drug Testing on Defendant Risk in Dade County, Florida, 1987
Description
The purpose of this data collection was to explore the
relationship between drug use and crime. Specifically, the collection
was undertaken to determine whether drug test results could provide
important predictive information on pretrial misconduct over and above
that provided by other variables, thus supplying more data for judges
to use in making bail and pretrial release decisions. Data about
defendants and their criminal and drug use history were gathered. In
addition, defendants were subjected to urinalysis drug testing
procedures to determine the presence or absence of drugs in the urine.
Both the drug testing methods and subsequent results were subjected to
reliability and validity testing procedures. The independent variables
in the study include demographic attributes such as defendant's sex,
race, birthdate, marital status, and employment, charge-related
attributes such as current offense, arrest, and court disposition,
prior criminal record of the defendant, current and past drug use, and
drug testing results. The dependent variables pertain to the
defendant's pretrial performance and include items such as failure to
appear and any rearrests.
Resources
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ICPSR09791.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09791.v1 |
Tags
- drug-testing
- defendants
- criminality-prediction
- drug-abuse
- drug-use
- drug-related-crimes
- controlled-drugs
- criminal-histories