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Uniform Crime Reports, 2002. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Available online. URL http //www.fbi.gov/ucr/02cius.htm. Posted in 2002. Provides access to the most comprehensive and authoritative compilation of crime-related statistics, including those relating to firearms. Statistics are issued annually. 

Figure 7.3 Like crime-related costs and loss of productivity costs, health care costs associated with drug use have risen every year since 1992. The costs of drug use prevention are far cheaper than treatment.

Calkins, Jonathan P., et al. Mandatory Minimum Sentences Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayers Money , Santa Monica RAND, 1997. The authors attempt to calculate the cost-effectiveness of mandatory minimum sentences for crimes related to cocaine distribution. This sentencing policy is compared to normal sentencing (without minimums) and to drug treatment. The conclusion is that mandatory minimum sentences are the least cost-effective policy, with drug treatment being the best investment of public expendimres. 

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S teen minutes. Noise can also induce mental states that lead to suicide and homicide. In Great Britain, anti-noise campaigners are keeping a count of the number of crime- related deaths that occur each year traceable to a re-spouse to noise, z... 

The costs of both alcohol and drug abuse come from a wide range of sources, although the costs are not distributed in the same proportions for the two types of illnesses. The sources include illness, death, medical expenses, and crime. Crime-related costs are especially significant for drug abuse (58% of the total). 

The limited information presented here demonstrates how, in contrast to responses to male drug use which tend to focus on the crime-related impact of such use, responses to female drug use appear to be motivated more by concerns about the impact of the drug use on others on children where the users are mothers and on men where the users are sex workers. 

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Crime-related costs of drug abuse, number of incarcerated drug offenders. Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program... 

An indirect measure of Target 11 involves the crime-related costs of drug abuse. In Chapter 1, reference was made to a study of the economic costs of drug abuse, commissioned by ONDCP. In 1996 the crime-related costs of drug abuse were estimated to be 78.4 billion. In 2002, these costs were estimated to be 107.8 billion.56... 

Bridge Painting Company and Its President Plead Guilty to Federal Crimes Relating to the Dumping of Lead Waste, Business and Legal Reports, Feb. 15, 2002. 

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