New York drug law evaluation project, 1973
By: principal investigator, Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Drug Abuse Council, Inc
Series: ICPSR -- 7656; ICPSR (Series) -- 7656
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Drug abuse; Drugs; Law and legislation; Administration of Criminal justice
Description: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Drug Abuse Council jointly organized a committee and research project to collect data, in a systematic fashion, about the 1973 drug law revision and to evaluate the law's effectiveness. The objectives of the Project were (1) to ascertain the repercussions of the drug law revision, (2) to analyze, to the degree possible, why the law was revised, (3) to identify any general principles or specific lessons that can be derived from the New York experience and that can be helpful to other states as they wrestle with the problem of illegal drug use and related crime. The files are described as follows: Ex-Drug User file: the purpose of this survey was to determine the extent of knowledge of the 1973 drug law among ex-drug users in drug treatment programs, and to discover any changes in their behavior in response to the new law. Interviews were given to 289 non-randomly selected volunteers from three modalities: residential drug-free, ambulatory methadone maintenance, and the detoxification unit of the New York City House of Detention for Men.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: 1971-1975.

New York.

Ex-drug user file: 867 records, 289 cases, 3 cards of data per respondent, 169 variables; Predicate felony file: 443 records, 443 cases, 1 card of data per respondent; Charge reduction file: 319 records, 319 cases, 1 card of data per respondent, approximately 27 variables; Criminal court study file: 1,802 records, 901 respondents, 2 cards of data per respondent, approximately 44 variables; Prison study file: 7,100 records, 3,550 respondents, 2 cards of data per respondent, approximately 67 variables.

Sentencing Patterns Under the 1973 New York State Drug Law, Drug Law Evaluation Project, October 1976.