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Drug Testing of Juvenile Detainees to Identify High-Risk Youth in Florida, 1986-1987

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Principal Investigator(s): Dembo, Richard

Summary: This data collection examines the interrelationships among drug/alcohol use, childhood sexual or physical abuse, and encounters with the juvenile justice system. To identify high-risk individuals, youths in a Tampa juvenile detention center were given urine tests and were asked a series of questions about past sexual and/or physical abuse. Official record searches were also conducted 6, 12, and 18 months afterward to measure later encounters with the juvenile or criminal justice systems. The inv... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09686.v1

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