Crack cocaine dealing by adolescents in two public housing projects: a pilot study
Crack cocaine dealing by adolescents in two public housing projects: a pilot study
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青少年在两个公共住房项目中交易强效可卡因：一项试点研究
DOI：
10.17730/humo.52.1.k287242k41211768
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发表时间：
1993
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
T. Mieczkowski
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作者：
R. Dembo;Patrick J. Hughes;L. Jackson;T. Mieczkowski
This paper reports on a pilot study in which 110 individuals, including 34 adolescent dealers in two housing projects were interviewed. The majority of young dealers were no longer in school, and 61% were unemployed. Most of the adolescents' income from crack dealing went to luxury items or "business" expenses, and not to help support their family. Most young dealers indicated that they were not currently using crack. Their involvement in drug dealing appeared to be for economic gain. The main reasons for selling crack were to "earn lots of money," and because "legal jobs pay too little." Those who sold crack in the past week reported average gross sales of $672 for that week, and the estimated median financial worth of the adolescent dealers was $2500. Sixty-seven percent of the dealers said they had killed or hurt someone, and 82% indicated that adults use children to sell cocaine to avoid the harsh criminal penalties for adult offenders. Arrests and long prison terms are not viewed as salient risk fact...
