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7 Am. J. Police 1 (1988)
Police On-Duty Drug Use: A Theoretical and Descriptive Examination

handle is hein.journals/ajpol7 and id is 7 raw text is: American Journal of Police 1 POLICE ON-DUTY DRUG USE: A THEORETICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE EXAMINATION Peter B. Kraska Sam Houston State University Victor E. Kappeler Central Missouri State University Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology 1987Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec. Please send all correspondence to Peter Kraska, College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas 77341. ABSTRACT The on-duty use of illegal drugs by police officers has received little attention in criminal justice studies. This study provides a theo- retical framework and a quantitative description, derived from qual- itative methods, of police on-duty illegal drug use. The problem is first examined within a theoretical context discussing: 1) societal and occupational drug use; 2) the seriousness of police engaging in this behavior; 3) the objective and subjective structural factors that make the police particularly vulnerable; and 4) a review of the re- search in this area. The theoretical framework stresses the integra- tion of the objective/quantitative with the subjective/qualitative the- oretical orientations and research methodologies. From this frame- work, a quantitative/qualitative descriptive account of on-the-job marijuana and non-prescription drug use by police officers in a spe- cific department located in the southern United States is presented. A few of the findings include: a high incidence of drug use among the officers; pre-employment and off-duty use indicating on-the-job use; most of the drug-using officers having between four and nine years of experience on the force; and most of the drug-using officers having exemplary performance records.

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