9 research outputs found
Methamphetamine Use and Criminal Behavior
This research seeks to broaden our understanding of methamphetamine’s (meth’s) place within the study of drugs and crime. Through extensive court records research and interviews with 200 offenders in local jails in western Colorado, this research contributes to the creation of a meth user profile and begins to identify the place of meth in the drug–crime nexus. The study compares the criminal behavior of meth users with other drug users, finding that meth users are more likely than other drug users to be drunk or high at the time of arrest and claim their crimes were related to drug use in other ways. A content analysis of criminal records demonstrates that meth users have more extensive criminal records and are more likely than other drug users to commit property crimes
Replication Data for: The Implementation of Supreme Court Precedent: The Impact of Arizona v. Gant on Police Searches
While many scholars have focused on the relationship shared between the Supreme
Court and lower courts, fewer have studied how those outside the judicial branch
implement court policy. This study examines how police implemented a major shift in
vehicle search law after the Supreme Court placed limits on search incident to arrest.
Comprehensive traffic stop data from two states are relied upon for time series
intervention analyses to test the decision's impact. Evidence of the Court's influence is
found in seriously limiting searches incident to arrest and expanding the use of
alternative searches as a means to circumvent the ruling