Interviewed delinquent adolescents (N=91) with respect to their personal and family drug use and criminal behavior. Found no significant gender differences with respect to drug use, but females committed more crimes against property than did males. Indicates that subjects saw a strong relationship between drug use and subsequent criminal behavior.…

Article investigated the relationship between parent-child drug usage in order to see if such usage is an expression of generational continuity and conformity or of deviant behavior. (Author/RK)

Discusses the emergence of a new type of abused drug, dextromethorphan, which is used in cough syrup. Presents the results of the first phase of a comprehensive investigation of this phenomenon in the Waynesboro, Pa. school district. Survey data indicate abuse of cough syrup has increased over the years and is increasingly perceived as a problem…

This paper described the delinquent way of life in Honolulu, the procedures the author used to learn about that way of life, and the historical context in which this experience was set. (Author/RK)