ArticleBMC psychiatry2012
Risk factors for criminal recidivism - a prospective follow-up study in prisoners with substance abuse.
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- Initiating methadone in jail and in the community: Patient differences and implications of methadone treatment for reducing arrests.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- Cost-effectiveness of extended release naltrexone to prevent relapse among criminal justice-involved individuals with a history of opioid use disorder.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Trial
- Feasibility and Effectiveness of Continuing Methadone Maintenance Treatment During Incarceration Compared With Forced Withdrawal.Journal of addiction medicineTrial
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- Correlates of Six-Month Recidivism among Rural Incarcerated Women.Women & criminal justice · 2025Article
- Informing evidence-based medicine for opioid use disorder using pharmacoeconomic studies.Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research · 2024Review
- Aggressive behaviours associated with MDMA and psychedelics: a narrative review.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2024Review
- The predictive validity of the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) for moderate- to high-risk cannabis, methamphetamine and opioid use after release from prison.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
- Neuropsychological Performance, Substance Misuse, and Recidivism in Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators.Psychosocial intervention · 2023Article
- Medications for opioid use disorder during incarceration and post-release outcomes.Health & justice · 2023Article
- Relapses in Illicit Drug Use Among Probationers: Results in a Risk Group of Public Health Services in Bavaria.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- Drug use and re-imprisonment: A prospective study of the Norwegian Offender Mental Health and Addiction (NorMA) cohort.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
- Understanding health and social service accessibility for young people with problematic substance use exiting prison in Australia.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- A Two-Way Street? Reciprocal Associations Between Parental Warmth and Hostility with Substance Use Among Justice-Involved Adolescents.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSubstance use in general has been shown to predict criminal recidivism. The present study aimed to examine potential predictors of criminal recidivism, including substance-specific substance use patterns, in prisoners with substance use.
methodsA cohort of prisoners with substance use problems (N = 4,152) were assessed with the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) in the Swedish criminal justice system. Clients were followed for an average of 2.7 years. Criminal recidivism was defined as any return to the criminal justice system.
resultsDuring follow-up, 69 percent (n = 2,862) returned to the criminal justice system. Recidivism was associated with amphetamine and heroin use, with an additive risk for injectors, and with polysubstance use. Also, recidivism was negatively associated with alcohol, other opioids than heroin/methadone and with hallucinogenic drugs, and positively associated with previous psychiatric in-patient treatment, violent behaviour, and with a shorter index sentence. Associations remained when controlling for type of crime.
conclusionsEven when controlling for type and severity of crime, and for psychiatric problems, risk of criminal relapse was increased by substance use variables, including amphetamine, heroin and polysubstance use, and an additional risk was shown for injection drug users. These findings have implications for the need for substance abuse treatment after release from prison.
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