Higher Neighborhood Crime Rates Don't Always Predict Early Initiation of Tobacco, Marijuana, and Alcohol

Table 1.

Correlations between Crime Data in the ABCD Study

  1 2 3 4 5

1 Total Drug Abuse Violation r 1

P

2 Drug Sale Offenses r 0.987 1

p <0.001

3 Marijuana Offenses r 0.965 0.9755 1

p <0.001 <0.001

4 Drug Possession Offenses r 0.9991 0.9803 0.9589 1

p <0.001 <0.001 <0.001

 5 Driving Under the Influence (DUI) r 0.977 0.9674 0.9759 0.9759 1

p <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001

Note: Data Came from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Pearson correla-tions were used. N = 11,878.