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Drinking, Driving, and Drugs:
A Comparative Study of Juvenile Substance Abuse Offenders in Bernalillo County, NM.

By Nancy Owen Lewis, Ph.D. and Iyiin Chang, M.S.
Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest
4600 A Montgomery Blvd NE – Suite 101
Albuquerque, NM 87109

Funded by:
New Mexico Traffic Safety Bureau
New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department
Santa Fe, NM

June 1998

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This study was funded by the New Mexico Traffic Safety Bureau. The data was provided by the Juvenile Probation and Parole Office in Albuquerque, NM; the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department; and the Division of Government Research, University of New Mexico. We thank the staff of these agencies for their help and cooperation in providing us with the information we needed to conduct this study. We also wish to thank Erica Weiss for her assistance in the preparation of this report.

List of TABLES

1. Study Population
2. Substance Abuse Offenses Included in the Index Referral
3. Study Groups by Offense Type
4. Location of Residence
5. Gender: Study Population vs Bernalillo County Youth
6. Age: Study Population vs Bernalillo County Youth
7. Ethnicity: Study Population vs Bernalillo County
8. Marital Status: Parents of Offenders vs. Bernalillo County Adults
9. Residence: Study Population vs Bernalillo County Youth
10. Gender Differences by Offender Group
11. Ethnicity by Offender Group
12. Age Categories by Offender Group
13. Residence by Offender Group
14. Marital Status of Parents by Offender Group
15. Grade in School by Offender Group
16. Referral Sources
17. Month of Incident
18. Day of Incident
19. Time of Incident
20. Dispositions
21. Relationship between Disposition and Prior Referrals
22. Informal Dispositions
23. Formal Dispositions
24. Program Referrals by Offender Group
25. Program Referrals by Disposition
26. Prior Offenses
27. Prior Substance Abuse Offenses
28. Recidivism by Offender Group
29. Subsequent Offenses
30. Subsequent Substance Abuse Offenses
31. Recidivism by Number of Referrals
32. Substance Abuse Offenses, JPPO, Albuquerque, 1986-1996