ArticleHealth & justice
Social support quality and availability affects risk behaviors in offenders.
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- Integrating family-based interventions into specialty court programs: qualitative guidance from sex trafficking specialty court participants and their supportive family members.Health & justice · 2026Article
- Coping, adjustment, perceived social support, and age as predictors of depressed mood among male maximum-security incarcerated offenders.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2026Article
- The association between probationers' addiction levels and socioeconomic-psychological characteristics.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Neuropsychiatric correlates of olfactory identification and traumatic brain injury in a sample of impulsive violent offenders.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Intensity of Social Support Matters: A Latent Class Analysis to Identify Levels of Social Support Associated with Optimal Health Outcomes Among Women Living with HIV.AIDS and behavior · 2022Article
- Us helping us: The evolution of a peer support group for formerly incarcerated people.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- An inverse relationship between perceived social support and substance use frequency in socially stigmatized populations.Addictive behaviors reports · 2019Article
- The reciprocal lagged effects of substance use and recidivism in a prisoner reentry context.Health & justice · 2017Article
- Modeling ecodevelopmental context of sexually transmitted disease/HIV risk and protective behaviors among African-American adolescents.HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundPeople involved in the justice system are at 2.5 times the risk of HIV infection compared to the general population, which is further complicated by substance abuse. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of social network
methodsWe used data from 330 drug-involved offenders. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to model and test path directionality and magnitude between the latent constructs of social support quality and quantity on risky behaviors.
resultsThe SEM indicated the latent construct of social support quality was significantly associated with reduced sexual risk behavior (β = -0.27), criminal risk (β = -0.26), and reduced substance use (β = -0.33). Additionally, the proposed model found that social support quantity was significantly positively associated with increased sexual risk behavior (β = 0.40) and substance use (β = 0.20).
conclusionsSocial support quality is an important predictor of risky behaviors; as the quality of an offender's social support increases, engagement in risky behaviors decreases. Probationers who had broader social support availability also had increased substance use and unprotected sex. Probation systems may be able to reduce substance use and STD/HIV infection risk in offenders by strengthening the quality of social support networks.
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