Uses and abuses of drug law enforcement statistics / compiled and written by Grant Wardlaw and Heather Deane.

Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1986.

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Drug abuse -- Statistics -- Australia.

Drug control -- Periodicals -- Australia.

One of the major problems in assessing drug law enforcement initiatives has been the lack of reliable statistics. This report describes the use and abuse of existing statistics, and their practical implications for drug law enforcement. Key issues are the types of drug law offences for which people are arrested; the illegal drugs involved in arrests; drug seizures; and deaths due to illegal drug use. This report is the first in a series on Trends and Issues in Australian crime and criminal justice published by the Australian Institute of Criminology. The series has been initiated by the Research and Statistics Division under the general editorship of the Assistant Director, Dr Paul Wilson. Other reports will be prepared and published in due course. - Publisher's website.

"July 1986".

Cover title.

0817-8542

5 pages ; 30 cm