Drs. David Maimon and Terrence Thornberry's research titled Geographical Distance between Young Adults and Their Parents: Predictors and Consequences for Adult Children’s Mental Health and Deviant Outcomes was recently funded by the Maryland Population Research Center.   
 

More than 20 years after university professor Peter Reuter interviewed hundreds of Washington drug dealers, researchers are still using his findings to track new drug trends.  According to an April 13 report in Slate, which used Reuter’s 1988 study on drug dealers’ hourly wages as a baseline, the price of cocaine has slipped 80 to 90 percent in the last 30 years. Not only are drug dealers earning lower wages than they did in the late ‘80s, according to the Slate article, the trade itself has become less violent with declining demand. While university officials said they catch few students in possession of cocaine, several students said there is still a market for the drug on the campus.