TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Assessing the impact of drug use and drug selling on violent offending in a panel of delinquent youth JO - Journal of drug issues A1 - Phillips, Matthew D. SP - 298 EP - 316 VL - 42 IS - 3 N2 - Despite a vast number of empirical studies arguing for or against a causal relationship between illegal drug use and selling and violent behavior, the debate continues. In part this is due to methodological weaknesses of previous research. Using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study, the current study seeks to improve on prior research designs to allow for a more precise examination of the mechanisms that lead from an individual's drug use (chiefly, marijuana use in the current sample) and drug selling to violent action. Results will allow for greater confidence in making causal inference regarding a long-standing concern in the discipline.

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LA - en SN - 0022-0426 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022042612456017 ID - ref1 ER -