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8 Crim. Just. Pol'y Rev. 5 (1997)

handle is hein.journals/cjpr8 and id is 1 raw text is: CJPR, VOL. 8, NO. 1/97, pp. 5-23 ©IUP Most Important Drug Programs in Small Cities and Towns: Orientations, Funding, and Criteria of Success M. Joan McDermott Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Abstract This paper uses data from a national survey of small cities and towns in the United States to examine anti-drug initiatives. The paper presents a typology of most important drug programs in these communities, and then examines their orientations, sources of funding, and criteria of success. Introduction By examining drug programs in small municipalities in the United States, this paper contributes to the literature on anti-drug efforts in an important way. Most knowledge about programs to combat drug abuse and drug-related crime results from studies conducted in large urban areas, for example, those report- ed in Davis, Lurigio, and Rosenbaum (1993), Tonry and Wilson (1990), and MacKenzie and Uchida (1994). Yet, differences between large and small cities in drug problems and appropriate responses to those problems may be pro- found. Drug use in rural America has been assessed (Edwards 1992) and concern has been expressed about the delivery of drug treatment and law enforcement services outside of large cities, although this has usually been in terms of the unique needs of rural (as opposed to small city and town) populations. Similarly, rural crime and rural policing have been the focus of recent research (Weisheit 1992; Weisheit, Falcone and Wells 1994). However, little is known about drug problems or attempts to address them in small cities and towns of the United States. Several questions arise with respect to drug programs in the small munic- ipalities. What types of drug programs are viewed as important by residents of small cities and towns? What are the programs' priorities? How are the pro-

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