The Road to Ruin? Sequences of Initiation to Drugs and Crime in Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9711690 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen E Pudney (0000-0002-5697-0976, University of Leicester, corresponding author), Stephen Pudney (University of Leicester and Università di Firenze) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 486 |
| Pages | C182-C198 |
| Publication date | 2003-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0297.00107 |
| OpenAlex | W2011725564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 10 |
This study investigates the routes by which young people develop patterns of drug‐using and offending behaviour. Survey data are used to assess the gateway effect – the tendency for soft drug use to lead to subsequent hard drug use and criminal activity. We argue that apparently strong gateway effects can be due to unobservable personal characteristics which produce a spurious association between different forms of problem behaviour. After correcting statistically for these confounding factors, gateway effects appear small. This casts doubt on the view that a more relaxed policy stance on soft drugs will lead to a hard drug epidemic
Confounding · Criminology · Econometrics · Economics · Gateway (web page · Spurious relationship · Unobservable · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |