Drug Crime Research Articles

Sentencing Federal Drug Offenders

The Drug War ushered in harsh sentencing practices in the United States. The severity in penalties has been particularly salient in the federal criminal justice system. Increased statutory penalties and U.S. Sentencing Commission guidelines led to drug users and traffickers serving longer periods of incarceration. As a result, the federal correctional system is overburdened. A noticeable change in attitude is evident. Congress has offered leniency for certain first-time drug offenders in the form of a statutory safety valve. While a progressive step, the safety valve applies to relatively few individuals. Importantly, federal judges have some discretion to reject what they might consider to be overly lengthy sentencing mandates. This Article provides an empirical study of sentencing statistics for drug offences. The sample derives from the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s fiscal year 2019 dataset of over 20,000 cases sentenced for drug crimes. Results show that judges employed various mechanisms to reduce statutory- and guidelines-based penalties. Strategies by judges include avoiding mandatory minimums (using the safety valve and otherwise), giving greater point reductions than permitted, and rejecting Commission policies. Over 60% of sentences were below the guidelines’ minimum recommendations. The consequences are beneficial in alleviating strain on the federal prison population, but create inconsistency in sentencing practices. A qualitative component supplements the quantitative. Judges, when issuing their statement of reasons for the sentence, may include textual comments. These comments provide valuable contextual information in how judges articulate their concerns with sanctions for drug offenders. Overall results present important policy considerations.

A History of Early Drug Sentences in California

The early history of drug sentences in California provides a quintessential example of structural racism in law. The demands of white voters to escalate penalties for drug crimes followed a pattern of collective myth making and value signaling that insisted opiates, cocaine, and cannabis were extremely dangerous, led to other crime, and prevalently were used and sold by immigrants and other despised groups. Public pressure for more severe punishment seemed to peak twice, in the 1920s and 1950s, in response to exaggerated threats such as “dope peddlers” targeting children and profitable “dope rings” controlled by subversive foreigners. Amplified by a self-seeking, robust news media and a multitude of fraternal, civic, and religious organizations, the frightful construction of illicit drugs seemed to demand a simple and uncompromising response: to punish drug users harder by increasing terms of incarceration. But white voters always understood that drug laws targeted immigrants and communities of color, and law enforcers used extreme penalties as leverage to pursue corrupt and racist prerogatives unrelated to reducing drug use. Drug penalties in California were developed over many decades with almost extreme levels of participation by antidrug activists and law enforcers. Appearing somehow scientific, the resulting arrays of penalties implied that the cruelest sentences were reserved for the truly blameworthy, when in fact they were reserved for the marginalized. Moreover, several legal conventions born of these penalty structures—mandatory minimums, the distinction between user and seller, punishment of addiction itself, and presumptions arising from drug quantities—still exacerbate the oppressive nature of drug statutes.

Alcohol and drug offenses and suicide risk among men who purchased a handgun in California: A cohort study

Firearm access is a risk factor for firearm suicide; substance use may confer additional risk. In this retrospective cohort study, we estimated the associations between prior alcohol and drug charges at the time of handgun purchase and subsequent suicide among men in California. The sample comprised all men who legally purchased a handgun in California in 2001 and who were age ≥ 21 at the time of acquisition (N = 101,377), identified in the California Department of Justice (CA DOJ) Dealer's Record of Sale database. Exposures included alcohol and drug criminal charges and convictions accrued January 1, 1990 until the first (‘index’) handgun acquisition in 2001, recorded in the CA DOJ Criminal History Information System. Outcomes included suicide and firearm suicide occurring after the index purchase and before January 1, 2016. A total of 1907 purchasers had alcohol charges, 1248 had drug charges, and 304 had both; 594 purchasers died by suicide (516 by firearm suicide). Compared with those with neither alcohol nor drug charges, those with alcohol charges had 2.20 times the hazard of suicide (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.39–3.46) and 2.22 times the hazard of firearm suicide (95% CI, 1.36–3.62). Risk was most elevated among those with more recent charges and those with 2 or more charges, and in the time period closest to the purchase. The associations for drug charges and the combination of alcohol and drug charges were not distinguishable from the null. Firearm owners with alcohol offenses may benefit from intervention to reduce firearm access and alcohol use.

Tackling Drug-Lords in a Nascent Market: Raids and Drug Crime in Uruguay

This article analyzes the effects of police raids for different types of crime in the most conflictive neighborhoods of Montevideo, Uruguay. Interrupted time-series and intervention models are estimated using different specifications of geographical area where the crackdowns occurred and also different control strategies to produce robust results. The effect of crackdowns on crime reporting is mixed; evidence suggesting crackdowns may produce short- and long-term effects on crime depending on their ability to affect gangs’ competition for the territory and the market. It appears that the effects of raids are sensitive to the context of the criminal situation. Crackdowns are not consistently effective in influencing crime. Evidence shows it is hard to reach levels of critical enforcement through 1-day crackdowns and that crackdowns’ ability to alter drug-market conditions would depend not only on the ability to extract drug dealers from the territory but also in preventing a rapid return.

“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate”: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab

Abstract Drawing on ethnography and interviews with recovering men in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, this study explores how two dominant models of American rehab are racialized — coerced treatment theorizing addiction as criminal personality—and a more medicalized, voluntaristic model rooted in the brain disease paradigm. At the “carceral rehab” of “Arcadia House,” staff assumed its majority court-mandated, poor men of color would arrive resistant to reforming their “lifestyle addictions,” justifying treatment backed by (re)incarceration. In contrast, “Healing Bridges” offered its gentler, “medical-restorative rehab” to mostly white, middle-class patients who escaped incarceration despite substantial participation in drug-related crime. While both programs mobilized the colorblind logic that “addiction doesn’t discriminate,” local disparities routed recovering men into vastly different treatments, disproportionately criminalizing the addictions of the Black poor. In a racialized binary operating across the field, Arcadia’s clients of color were viewed as sicker and more out of control than Bridges’ white patients. While Arcadia’s clients required coercive state management, Bridges’ patients were understood as already possessing the capacity for self-management—reinforcing staff’s mission to empower the non-addict within. Distinctions between coerced and voluntary treatment were naturalized and mapped onto recovering men, reproducing race at the most intimate levels of self-making.

Criminological Study of Drug Distribution in Lubuklinggau City

Drug crimes are a serious crime against humanity, which has a tremendous impact, particularly on the young generation. Drug crimes also count as transnational crime, considering that the distribution and trade of drugs are executed illegally across national borders. As a legal state, to uphold the rule of law is to eradicate the distribution and use of narcotics, specifically in Lubuklinggau. This situation became the basis for us to explore the problem: how is the criminology study of drug distribution in Lubuklingau city?. The prevention of drug distribution in Lubuklinggau today needs improvement, particularly in terms of facilities. Advanced detection tool is necessary to improve the prevention of drug trafficking. Professional guidance and prevention efforts are made in various locations, such as government offices, schools, campuses, with supervision from police officers. The enforcement system also needs to give severe punishments to offenders.

Qualitative and quantitative recognition method of drug-producing chemicals based on SnO2 gas sensor with dynamic measurement and PCA weak separation

With the rampant drug crime, the detection of drug-producing chemicals has put forward the great demand of multi-type and multi-concentration on-line rapid detection. The rapid development of dynamic measurement for semiconductor gas sensors provides a solution to this problem. However, the mutual blend of type and concentration information negatively affects sensor performance. In this paper, principal component analysis (PCA) was used for weak separation of type and concentration; k-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) was used for qualitative recognition; polynomial regression was used for quantitative recognition. The physical meaning of the dynamic response signal after PCA transformation was first proposed: PC1 has a weak concentration meaning; the combination of PC2, PC3, and PC4 has a weak type meaning. Based on the weak separation, the stepwise recognition method of qualitative classification and quantitative regression was first used to improve the recognition rate, the resolution and the generalization performance of the sensor. Using the inverse transformation of PCA, the principle of PCA and the method of ideal data verified the feasibility of this method. The qualitative and quantitative recognition of various drug-producing chemicals had been realized, which is a new way of on-line rapid sensor detection for drug-producing chemicals.

Empathy, solidarity, and the work of law and humanitarianism

Osanloo offers her book as a longitudinal study (p. 29), explaining that she conducted fieldwork and archival research for the project over a full ten years. In many ways, though, the overall thrust of the descriptions and analyses seem less longitudinal or diachronic than synchronic. I say this because the book is light on historical scaffolding relevant to sociocultural and political (as distinct from narrowly legal) developments in the post-Khomeini era. Readers are not provided a clear sense of how Iran’s juridical field as a whole—or the popular sentiments and dispositions bearing on its various features—may have changed in recent decades (or even over the course of her fieldwork) as a consequence of neoliberal globalization or other dynamics, though Osanloo does make clear that the global circulation of rights talk has resulted in a tempering or “seasoning” of some of the more harsh features of Iranian criminal justice and that “[c]alls for compassion and forbearance pervade daily public life” (p. 11). The issues are important both empirically and theoretically because in many parts of the world (e.g., the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, Chile, Turkey, Egypt, India, China, Malaysia, and the Philippines) processes of neoliberal globalization, like those of democratization and decentralization with which they are sometimes linked, have directly entailed or at least gone hand-in-hand with trends in juridical fields and more encompassing cultural-political (including religious) realms that have been variously characterized as punitive, authoritarian, conservative, and/or illiberal (Pratt et al. 2005; Peletz 2020a, 2020b). One question here concerns the forgiveness work that began to take shape and congeal around the mid-1990s (initially in relation to juvenile offenders), which Osanloo analyzes as unfolding in or comprising a semiautonomous social field in Sally Falk Moore’s (1973) sense. The question is whether developments in these areas, which have many features Foucault (2007) characterized as “pastoral,” constitute a more-or-less quarantined exception either with regard to changes in the more encompassing juridical field or with respect to the relative scope, force, and thrust of “penal populism” (Pratt 2007). (We don’t hear much about fear, anxiety, or panic associated with crime waves, state repression, or the challenges and precarity of everyday life.) Another question, related but analytically distinct, is the extent to which the growth and greater cultural salience of forgiveness work in recent decades may have directly or indirectly informed dynamics in other realms of the juridical field and/or in popular sentiment bearing on the punishment of variously defined transgressions other than murder and rape, especially drug offenses and what are construed as crimes against the state (where forbearance with regard to capital punishment is not an option). This is one area where Bourdieu’s work on social fields, especially juridical fields (Bourdieu 1987), might be more generative than Moore’s notion of the law as a semiautonomous social field, particularly if it is combined with insights gleaned from the literature on “the new punitiveness” (Pratt et al. 2005) and penal populism. More generally, if Iran’s criminal justice system as a whole has become “kinder and gentler”—or at least not significantly more punitive—in recent decades, it would be interesting to hear how and why it has bucked the exceedingly widespread (though not universal) global trends.

Mischief, Mayhem, and Remediation.

Institutional rules are necessary to preserve safety and security in correctional systems. An assessment of relevant mental health problems is a key element of a fair disciplinary process. Though these hearings are administrative in nature, we recommend that mental health evaluations related to disciplinary matters be completed by qualified and well-trained professionals using consistent standards. There are important opportunities to interrupt an untreated mental illness by identifying mental health problems during such evaluations and making appropriate referrals for treatment. We propose the use of intrafacility diversionary programs for drug offenses and other misconduct.

To the issue of improving the mechanism of drug criminality counteraction

The article deals with the problematic issues of improving the functioning of the mechanism of combating drug crime and on this basis formulated recommendations aimed at improving the legal basis and practice of crimino-logical impact on drug crime. It is concluded that the search for directions of rationalization of the mechanism of combating drug crime can and should be conducted by revealing the degree of influence of the whole management mechanism, its individual elements on the objects of criminological influence in the sphere of combating drug crime, in particular, on the state of law, ensuring public safety, combating crime. The first direction of improvement of the mechanism of combating drug crime is the necessity of a scientifically grounded approach in determining the objective activity for combating drug crime on the basis of objective social needs. The formation of the subject competence of the subjects of combating drug crime must be laid down in three important conditions: first, the prin-ciple of separation of powers, according to which law enforcement agencies are assigned to the executive branch of power; secondly, the protection of only the part of the public relations which the offender encroaches upon by committing a criminal offense can be attributed to the substantive activity of law enforcement agencies; third, law enforcement agencies may be subject only to those relationships that objectively require coercive measures. Another important direction of improving the mechanism of combating drug crime is to bring the crime management system in line with the requirements of scientifically sound principles. These are the principles of balance of rights and re-sponsibilities, personal responsibility of the official for the actions or decisions taken, differentiation of competences of different bodies, divisions and officials, fixing them in the normative legal acts, conformity of the position, deter-mining the main executive level, proportional application coercive measures, etc. It is emphasized that the structural and organizational improvement of the mechanism of combating drug crime necessitates the need to determine the structure - the leader of state policy in this field, as well as the subjects of direct counteraction to drug crime. In view of these circumstances, it is important to create an organizational model of the mechanism for combating drug crime, which would include, first, the enhancement of the status of coordination bodies under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine; secondly, the organizational units in the structure of the executive power of the regional level, which would provide at this level the organization of anti-narcotic activities, especially outside the sphere of law enforcement agencies; third, coordination units providing structurally (by directions): operational-search activities, external intelligence, pre-trial investigation, administrative activities in the field of control over legal drug traffick-ing, providing a single information base on drug trafficking and combating drug crime, other areas counteraction, due to the nature of the complex operational environment.

Coordination of law enforcement agencies’ activites in the sphere of drug criminality counteraction

The article deals with the concepts and forms of coordination of the activities of law enforcement agencies in the field of combating drug crime. It is determined that coordination is important because this activity is done through the concerted efforts of different actors. These include public authorities at various levels, non-state actors repre-senting the interests of civil society, as well as individual citizens through various forms of self-organization of the population that can effectively counteract the illicit trafficking of drugs, provided that their activities are optimally coordinated. However, under domestic conditions, for a long time, it is not possible to make an effective choice of coordinator as a subject, which fully coordinates the sectoral activity of all involved in the process of combating drug abuse of institutions and organizations. Summarizing the material available on this issue, the authors identified certain trends in solving this issue. According to the results of the analysis, an organizational model was proposed, where the role of the coordinator of anti-narcotic activities was assigned to the Interagency Interaction Center in the sphere of combating criminal drug trafficking, which would operate under the Department of Combating Nar-cotics of the National Police of Ukraine. Assessing the role of the prosecutor’s office as an organizer of the fight against crime in general, including criminal drug trafficking, it is stated that this agency is intended to coordinate the activities of all law enforcement agencies in the implementation of their various functions of criminal justice, that is, on a wide range of tasks. The authors emphasize that there is also a need to coordinate search operations as the most effective law enforcement function in the field of combating criminal drug trafficking. The authors consider the National Police of Ukraine Department of Drug Crime to be the optimal working body to ensure coordination of actions of all these operational units of law enforcement agencies, as having in its arsenal strategic and tactical approaches of joint operational work in the sphere of criminal drug trafficking. At the same time, these units will not lose their position as a subject of ARD in the anti-narcotic sphere. It is emphasized that the implementation of the proposed coordination mechanism in the practice of law enforcement agencies in a qualified and professional approach to its application will serve to increase the efficiency of coordination activities, requiring law enforcement agencies to apply modern methods of coordination, correct definition of strategy and tactics of interaction on coun-teraction, counteraction cases of substitution and duplication.

SOME ASPECTS OF DRUG SECURITY IN THE SIBERIAN FEDERAL DISTRICT IN THE CONTEXT OF ANNUAL MONITORING OF DRUG SITUATION

The state of drug situation is an important component of security enforcement of modern society. In this regard, narcotism, the effectiveness of the implementation of anti-drug policy by the state and public institutions are annually studied in various areas. In the article based on the study of statistical data on hospitalization of patients in the organizations of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation with a diagnosis of «drug addiction», the amount of drugs and psychotropic substances seized by law enforcement agencies from illegal drug trafficking, as well as the level of drug crime, the drug situation in the Siberian Federal District is analyzed. Also, when assessing narcotism, the results of sociological research as an integral part of the annual monitoring of the drug situation were used. Special attention is paid to the consideration of the movement of drugs of the opium group, the state of opium addiction, determination of the most problematic federal subjects located within the district. An attempt to determine the most probable transit regions and the concentration of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances is made. Reasoning from the analysis carried out, attention is drawn to the high level of drug tension in the district, exceeding in some areas the corresponding indicators across the Russian Federation.

Crime, quarantine, and the U.S. coronavirus pandemic.

Research SummaryPriorresearch has produced varied results regarding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on crime rates, depending on the offenses and time periods under investigation. The current study of weekly offense rates in large U.S. cities is based on a longer time period, a greater number of offenses than prior research, and a varying number of cities for each offense (max = 28, min = 13, md = 20). We find that weekly property crime and drug offense rates, averaged across the cities, fell during the pandemic. An exception is motor vehicle theft, which trended upward after pandemic‐related population restrictions were instituted in March 2020. Robbery rates also declined immediately after the pandemic began. Average weekly homicide, aggravated assault, and gun assault rates did not exhibit statistically significant increases after March. Beginning in June 2020, however, significant increases in these offenses were detected, followed by declines in the late summer and fall. Fixed‐effects regression analyses disclose significant decreases in aggravated assault, robbery, and larceny rates associated with reduced residential mobility during the pandemic. These results support the routine activity hypothesis that the dispersion of activity away from households increases crime rates. The results for the other offenses are less supportive.Policy ImplicationsQuarantines and lockdowns, although necessary to reduce contagious illness, are not desirable crime‐control devices. An object lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is to redouble effective crime reduction strategies and improve police–community relations without confining people to their homes.

Capabilities of Forensic Molecular Genetic Analysis in Establishing the Taxonomic Affiliation of Objects of Plant Origin

The control over the circulation of plants containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances (or their precursors) is one of the most critical aspects of the fight against drug crime. The forensic botanical examination uses classical morphological and anatomical analysis methods, which are not always informative enough when identifying species membership of shredded and degraded plant objects; similarly, they do not allow to establish their individual-specific identity. The molecular genetic methods of plant analysis and the comparative databases could serve as valuable tools for law enforcement purposes. In particular, in the production of forensic molecular genetic analysis of narcotic plants presented in powder, it is crucial to determine the taxonomic affiliation of the objects since this information affects the qualification of the crime. As a case the author presents the materials of an additional forensic examination conducted in the Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the results of which had a significant impact on the qualification of the committed offense.

Impact of a community-policing initiative promoting substance use disorder treatment over criminal charges on arrest recidivism

BackgroundOverdose deaths, addiction, and drug-related crime have increased in the United States over the past decade. Treatment improves outcomes, including reducing crime, but few individuals with addiction receive treatment. Here, we determine whether the Madison Addiction Recovery Initiative (MARI), a community policing program implemented by the City of Madison (Wisconsin) Police Department (MPD) that diverts adults who committed a non-violent, drug use-related crime from criminal prosecution to addiction treatment, reduces the risk of recidivism (i.e., an arrest) in the 6-month period following the index crime. MethodsObservational data were collected by the MPD for 12 months before through 6 months after an index crime from participants in the MARI program (n = 263) who referred to MARI between September 1, 2017 and August 31, 2020 and a Historical Comparison group (n = 52) who committed a comparable crime between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2016. Average effects were estimated using intention-to-treat (ITT), a per-protocol, and a complier average causal effects (CACE) analyses, adjusted for covariates. ResultsITT analysis did not show that MARI assignment lowered adjusted odds of 6-month recidivism (aOR = 0.59 [0.32, 1.12], p = 0.11). Per-protocol analysis showed that completing MARI lowered the adjusted odds of 6-month recidivism (aOR = 0.23 [0.10, 0.52], p < 0.001). CACE analysis indicated that assignment to MARI among individuals who would complete the MARI program if assigned to the program lowered the adjusted odds of 6-month recidivism (aOR = 0.85 [0.80, 0.90], p < 0.001). ConclusionsDiverting adults who committed a non-violent, drug use-related crime from criminal prosecution to addiction treatment may reduce 6-month recidivism.

Organized Drug-Related Crime – International Legal Combat and Prevention Instruments

Organized crime did not arise suddenly, it is an occurrence that dates back to the nineteenth century. Its modern form is characterized by exceptional diversity both in terms of goods threatened by its impact, as well as the forms in which it manifests itself. The main area of threats are drug production and trafficking. It is a global problem and the links of organized crime groups cover the whole world, regardless of the system, political or economic situation of a given country. The international drug crime has been developed too rapidly and individual governments are not abble to cope with it. Countries have been confronted with joining forces and creating a strong legal instrument, based on international cooperation, which will be able to give the relevant national authorities the right powers to counter organized drug crime. The aim of the article is to present the legislative and institutional dimension of the fight against organized drug crime in the global, european and national perspective.

The Vicious Cycle: Problematic Family Relations, Substance Abuse, and Crime in Adolescence: A Narrative Review.

Despite the copiousness of studies on the risky behaviors of adolescents, we cannot establish with certainty the leading aspects involved in teens’ substance abuse and criminal actions. This review aims to explore the interplay among the family system, substance abuse, and criminal behavior. An analysis of the main results of the 61 articles published between 2010 and 2020 shows that adolescents whose parents are justice-involved and often absent from home are more likely to perceive lower cohesion, support, and poor family communication. These factors can involve them in criminal acts and substance abuse. Moreover, these conducts are often linked to a form of uneasiness and a search of autonomy. Indeed, risky behaviors could have more than one meaning. Our findings also suggest that the most diffused drug-related crimes in adolescence are economic crimes, weapon carrying, robberies, dealing, and drug possession. Considering these results, future clinical implications might be based on multidimensional approaches, focusing more on the family context to promote interventions for at-risk adolescents.

Judicial attitudes under shifting jurisprudence: Evidence from Brazil’s new drug law of 2006

This paper attempts to quantify the response of different types of appellate judges to a major shift in criminal jurisprudence on drug offenses in Brazil, which, in 2010, revoked the prohibition of conversion of prison sentences in drug offenses. Appellate judges may react to criminal reform by changing their rates of judgements that are favorable to defendants and, depending on the judge type, responses run in different directions and with variable intensity. This study offers detailed estimates of such responses and interprets them in the light of the literature on the determinants of judicial decision-making, which resorts not only on legal factors but also on the ideology, personal attributes and strategic behavior of judges. According to the Brazilian constitution, 10% of the seats in appellate courts must be filled by formerly practicing lawyers and 10% by former prosecutors, both by executive appointment. The remaining 80% are reserved for career judges. In addition to these appointments, appellate panels also rely heavily on judges sitting by designation, who acted as rapporteurs, between 2009 and 2013, in as many as 14% of all criminal appeals in the state court of São Paulo, which is the subject of the analysis. A large dataset of criminal appeals related to drug offenses and the exogenous assignment of cases allow identifying the causal effects of career backgrounds on the response of appellate judges to the shift in drug jurisprudence. Estimates of the effect of judge types on appellate case outcomes, conditional on case characteristics and judging panel-specific effects, confirm that career judges are more likely to rule in favor of defendants, in line with the shift in jurisprudence. Former prosecutors and sitting judges seem to react against the shift, by increasing their rate of rulings against defendants. Former lawyers tend to exhibit mixed behavior, possibly resulting from a combination of liberal attitudes and strategic behavior, in deference to policy preferences of the executive branch.

The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism

For recently released prisoners, the minimum wage and the availability of state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) can influence both their ability to find employment and their potential legal wages relative to illegal sources of income, in turn affecting the probability they return to prison. Using administrative prison release records from nearly six million offenders released between 2000 and 2014, we use a difference-in-differences strategy to identify the effect of over two hundred state and federal minimum wage increases, as well as 21 state EITC programs, on recidivism. We find that the average minimum wage increase of $0.50 reduces the probability that men and women return to prison within 1 year by 2.8%. This implies that on average the effect of higher wages, drawing at least some released prisoners into the legal labor market, dominates any reduced employment in this population due to the minimum wage. These reductions in returns to incarcerations are observed for the potentially revenue generating crime categories of property and drug crimes; prison reentry for violent crimes are unchanged, supporting our framing that minimum wages affect crime that serves as a source of income. The availability of state EITCs also reduces recidivism, but only for women.

Drugs, Crime, Space, and Time: A Spatiotemporal Examination of Drug Activity and Crime Rates

Drugs, Crime, Space, and Time: A Spatiotemporal Examination of Drug Activity and Crime Rates