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Decriminalization of Drunkenness; Effects on the Work of Suburban Police

Lorin R. Daggett, Edward J. Rolde

SUMMARY. A seemingly paradoxical increase in the number of drinking-related jail-cell detentions occurred in 10 Massachusetts suburbs after the decriminalization of public drunkenness in that state.