iminal behavior (Sue, Sue & Sue, 1994). Indeed, Sue, Sue and Sue (1994) report that:
1. About 10 million to 15 million Americans are believed to have serious problems directly related to alcohol.
2. Alcohol abuse accounts for almost 15 percent of the nation's health care costs, a figure which, when considered along with the effects of lower worker productivity due to alcohol, runs about $50 billion per year.
3. The life expectancy of an alcoholic is ten to twelve years shorter than norm.
4. Alcoholics have significantly higher rates of suicide than non-alcoholics.
5. Alcoholism is associated with 55 percent of auto accidents as well as a substantial percentage of industrial and home accidents.
6. Alcoholism is a factor in most crimes of assault, rape and spouse abuse.
The research proposed here is an attempt to answer Steffensmeier, Streifel and Shihadeh's (1992) call for a replication and expansion of their study. Specifically, the proposed research will examine for relationships between not only birth cohort size and crime volume but also
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