Resaearch for the risk factors of drug abuse among juvenile delinquents

Research Project

Project/Area Number	13834006
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	社会心理学
Research Institution	Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research
Principal Investigator	SENOO Eiichi Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, researcher, 東京都精神医学総合研究所, 副参事研究員 (30226675)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SYOJI Masami University of Mejiro, assistant professor, 人間社会学部, 助教授 (90327106) TOMITA Taku Musasino Gakuin, medical doctor, 医務課医長 OOHARA Michiko Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, researcher, 東京都精神医学総合研究所, 研究員 (50360699) ARIZONO Hiroko Ibaraiki Christian University, assistant professor, 短期大学部, 助教授 (70282366)
Project Period (FY)	2001 – 2003
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000) Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000) Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000) Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Keywords	drug abuse / drug dependence / glue sniffing / amphetamine / juvenile delinquency / peer relationship / 仲間からの影響 / 暴走族 / シンナー / 覚醒剤
Research Abstract	According to the criminal white paper etc., the number of drug abuse persons is increasing in recent years. A boy's friends and acquaintances investigated by extracting a focus the 15 fiscal year about the influence which it has on abuse promotion, this research having type-ized the juvenile delinquent and the girl under entrance to national and prefectural juvenile independence support institutions (the old juvenile reformatory), in consideration of the actual condition of an abuse medicine based on such a new situation, and taking the influence of sex difference. Although the entrance person of a juvenile independence support institution was regarded in general as early juvenile delinquents less than 15 years old, influence by direction which it turns out that two or more high risk factors, such as a friend, and the gang persons concerned, the motorcycle gang persons concerned, are held also about the friend background by this investigation, and stops drug abuse, such as "advice from a friend" and "advice to a friend", conversely was also checked.