TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pacula,Rosalie Liccardo
AU  - Kilmer,Beau
TI  - Marijuana and Crime: Is there a Connection Beyond Prohibition?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10046
PY  - 2003
Y2  - October 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10046
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10046.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
Tel: 310/393-0411 ext. 6494
Fax: 858/350-8798
E-Mail: pacula@rand.org

Beau Kilmer
RAND
1776 Main Street
P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
E-Mail: kilmer@rand.org
AB  - We examine the relationship between marijuana use and non-drug related crime using data on arrests from the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program and Uniform Crime Reports. There is a positive association between self-reported use at the time of the offence and non-drug related violent, property and income-producing crime even after accounting for other substance use in the ADAM data. Reduced form equations using both data sets only provide evidence supporting a causal mechanism for property and income-producing crime. In the case of violent crime, we find a statistically significant association with arrests but not reported crime, suggesting that marijuana use may just influence the likelihood of getting caught committing these crimes.
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