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4 pages in length. California's statistics for drug arrests during the twentieth century's final decade is indicative of the wide margin of gender, racial and age variables. The years between 1990 and 1999 provide data on arrests for specific drugs (felony or misdemeanor) and whether the crime was committed by a juvenile or adult. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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geography [create] many issues that affect the drug situation in California." The years between 1990 and 1999 provide data on arrests for specific drugs (felony or misdemeanor) and whether
the crime was committed by a juvenile or adult. The Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis (2000) reports that overall, this ten-year period experienced an alarming increase in juvenile
drug-related arrests (up by 70.1%) while a small but important decrease in the prevalence of adult infractions (down by 3.3%). Juvenile felonies outweighed misdemeanors at the beginning of the decade
but gave way to a rapidly increasing misdemeanor increase in 1994; by 1999, misdemeanor arrests surpassed felonies by almost three times with 16,852 and 6,587, respectively. Conversely, adult felonies
remained far above misdemeanors throughout the entire decade with statistics indicating how they were "two times higher for adults than for juveniles" (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000, p.
11). Adults are much more likely to be arrested for narcotics than their juvenile counterparts, while marijuana arrests were chiefly a juvenile offense that increased from 100 per 100,000
in 1990 to 352 per 100,000 in 1999. Dangerous drugs arrests, while predominantly in the adult population, experienced an increase in both groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles
and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender played a pertinent role in the increase of dangerous drug arrests in both juvenile and adult populations, while
both male and female arrests for narcotics and marijuana declined (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Macallair et al (2000) point out how drug-related imprisonment increased from 115
per 1000,000 in 1996 to 132 per 100,000 by 1999. California - the indisputable leader when it comes to unprecedented resolution for myriad social and political problems - took a
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