Estimating Drug Use: The Effect of Sampling Methods and Policy Implications (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship) - Hardcover

Janine Kremling

9781593325190: Estimating Drug Use: The Effect of Sampling Methods and Policy Implications (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship)

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ISBN 10: 1593325193 ISBN 13: 9781593325190

Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2013

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Kremling uses data from the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) and the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) programs to explore whether the drug estimates of DUF, using a non-probability sample, and the drug use estimates of ADAM, using a probability sample, yield different results. She finds that the drug use information in DUF and ADAM is not substantially different for marijuana, cocaine, and opiates for all sites analyzed together. Her main conclusion is that a probability sample does not produce results that are substantially different from a convenience sample. While a researcher can attempt to draw a probability sample, it is still volunteers who agree to participate just as in a convenience sample.

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Janine Kremling is an Assistant Professor at California State University at San Bernardino, where she has been a faculty member since 2008. Dr. Kremling received her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. Her primary research interests are in the field of capital punishment and racial discrimination, jury decision-making, and drug use and crime.

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