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I'd like to echo Lisa's concern. Drug enforcement, like any public
order enforcement, requires police to be pro-active, rather than
reacting to victim reports as is the case for other crimes. You could
look at both drug enforcement and child maltreatment enforcement as
reflections of agency policy. There are hints in the literature (don't
ask for cites--it's something I read a while ago) that children are
more likely to be removed from white families than from black
families. This probably reflects the general tendency to see white
victims as more valuable than black victims. <br>
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If so, you might find that high levels of drug enforcement is actually
related to large numbers of child maltreatment cases where the child is
left in the home. That would be an interesting study. I'd recommend
against using drug arrests as a reflection of individual behavior,
however. <br>
<br>
Joan Crowley<br>
Department of Criminal Justice<br>
New Mexico State University. <br>
<br>
Lisa fontes wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">This study
feels a bit problematic to me
for several reasons. For instance, we know that drug use is similar for
whites
and blacks, but drug arrests are way higher for blacks. So, what is the
point,
exactly, of studying drug ARRESTS? Arrests don’t necessarily correlate
to
drug use or even sales (alcohol and prescription drug abuse, for
instance,
rarely lead to arrest, but can lead to intoxication that contributes to
child
abuse and neglect). So what I think you’re going to end up finding is
that—yes—where the police have a high presence you will find high
rates of both drug ARRESTS and child maltreatment REPORTS. But this
will not
have much to do with any real correlation between drug/alcohol use or
child
maltreatment occurrence, both of which occur but are not generally <span
class="GramE">discovered/prosecuted</span> among the wealthy and the
White. Once
again, the communities where some people make their living in the drug
trade
will be stigmatized.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">I’d be
interested in others’
opinions—perhaps there’s something I’m not grasping here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Respectfully,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Lisa <span
class="SpellE">Fontes</span>, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu";>owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu";>mailto:owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu</a>] <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>David Crampton<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
month="10" day="6" year="2004"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Wednesday, October 06,
2004</span></font></st1:date><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Child Maltreatment
Researchers<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> drug markets
and child
maltreatment</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font color="navy"
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">We are
developing a study
of drug markets and child maltreatment and would appreciate any
references to
previous work.<span style=""> </span>While there are drug
arrests through out </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font
color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Cleveland</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> and the
suburbs there are some neighborhoods with high numbers of drug
arrests (for possession and selling) and we are curious how they relate
to
child maltreatment victims’ addresses.<span style=""> </span>I know
there is a lot of research on
parental substance abuse and child welfare and a bit on children
exposed to
methamphetamine labs, but I have not found much related to drug arrests
and
child maltreatment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks, David<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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