Adolescent Addition: A Study of Drug Users Between the Ages of 16 and 19 Adjudicated Youthful Offenders and Placed on Probation, Brooklyn Criminal Court, 1944 to 1966
Abstract
The extent of drug use among juveniles is impossible to measure by conventional methods, and this has added to the difficulty of determining the cause and subsequently the treatment of the juvenile addict. Although not a new phenomenon in the United States (in 1919» according to a report of a Committee appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, many heroin addicts were boys and girls under twenty), a recent statement by a concerned official asserts that over 100,000 collegians use or sample drugs ; and the National Bureau of Narcotics has fifty institutions of higher learning under surveillance. This study, however, is concerned not with those under surveillance, but with those who have been apprehended, accused and placed on Probation, under the flexibility of the Youthful Offenders Act.
Subject Area
Social work|Developmental psychology|Medical personnel|Criminology|Pharmaceutical sciences
Recommended Citation
Ryan, Rose Gregory, "Adolescent Addition: A Study of Drug Users Between the Ages of 16 and 19 Adjudicated Youthful Offenders and Placed on Probation, Brooklyn Criminal Court, 1944 to 1966" (1967). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30359838.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30359838
