Evaluation of the Maricopa County [Arizona] Demand Reduction Program, 1989-1991 / John R. Hepburn, C. Wayne Johnston, Scott Rogers.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Hepburn, John R.

Johnston, C. Wayne.

Rogers, Scott.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9977.

ICPSR ; 9977

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--Treatment--Arizona--Maricopa County--Evaluation.

Drug abuse.

Drug abuse and crime--Arizona--Maricopa County.

Drug abuse and crime.

Drug abuse--Arizona--Maricopa County--Public opinion.

Drug abuse--Treatment--Arizona--Maricopa County--Public opinion.

Police--Arizona--Maricopa County--Attitudes.

Police.

Public opinion--Arizona--Maricopa County.

Public opinion.

Drug abuse--Treatment.

Evaluation.

Arizona--Maricopa County.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

These data were collected to evaluate the Demand Reduction Program, a program initiated in Maricopa County, Arizona, in 1989 to combat drug abuse. A consortium of municipal, county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies developed the program, which stressed user accountability. The Demand Reduction Program had two objectives: (1) to create community-wide awareness of the severity of the drug problem and to alert drug users to the increased risk of legal sanctions, and (2) to adopt a zero-tolerance position of user accountability through an emphasis on increased and coordinated law enforcement activities directed against individual offenders and special treatment programs in lieu of prosecution. Part 1 of the collection, Demand Reduction Program Data, provides information on prosecutor's disposition, arrest date, submitted charges, filed charges, prior charges, disposition of charges, drugs offender used in last three months, information on prior drug treatment, type of attorney, and arrestee's age at arrest, sex, marital status, income, and living arrangement. Part 2 is a Citizen Survey conducted in January 1990, ten months after the implementation of the Demand Reduction Program. Adult residents of Maricopa County were asked in telephone interviews about their attitudes toward drug use, tax support for drug treatment, education, and punishment, their knowledge of the Demand Reduction Program, and demographic information. Parts 3 and 4 supply data from surveys of Maricopa County police officers, conducted in March 1990 and April 1991, to measure attitudes regarding the Demand Reduction Program with respect to (1) police effort, (2) inter-agency cooperation, (3) the harm involved in drug use, and (4) support for diversion to treatment. The two police surveys contained identically-worded questions, with only a small number of different questions asked the second y... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09977

Contents:

Part 1: Demand Reduction Program Data; Part 2: Citizen Survey, 1990; Part 3: Survey of Police Officers, 1990; Part 4: Survey of Police Officers, 1991; Part 5: Task Force Data; Part 6: Codebook for All Parts; Part 7: SAS Data Definition Statements for Demand ReductionProgram Data; Part 8: SAS Data Definition Statements for Citizen Survey, 1990; Part 9: SAS Data Definition Statements for Survey of PoliceOfficers, 1990; Part 10: SAS Data Definition Statements for Survey of PoliceOfficers, 1991; Part 11: SAS Data Definition Statements for Task Force Data; Part 12: User Guide

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Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61164794

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