In a new 144-page report released today by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, alcohol and other drugs are significant factors in all crime. In 2006, alcohol and other drugs were involved in these inmate offenses:
- 78 percent of violent crimes;
- 83 percent of property crimes; and
- 77 percent of public order, immigration or weapon offenses; and probation/parole violations.
This study also found that compared to non-substance involved inmates, substance-involved inmates are not only likelier to be re-incarcerated, begin their criminal careers at an early age, and have more contacts with the criminal justice system, but they are also:
- Four times likelier to receive income through illegal activity;
- Twice as likely to have had at least one parent who abused alcohol or other drugs when they were children;
- 41 percent likelier to have some family criminal history;
- 29 percent less likely to have completed at least high school; and
- 20 percent likelier to be unemployed a month before incarceration.
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