ArticleLaw and human behavior2018
Associations between posttraumatic stress and legal charges among substance using veterans.
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Impact of Interventions to Reduce Violence and Substance Abuse Among VA Patients
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Justice Involvement Among Military Veterans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of traumatic stress · 2020Pooled it
- Does a history of violent offending impact treatment response for comorbid PTSD and substance use disorders? A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- Social determinants of health associated with initiation of evidence-based psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in a national sample of veterans.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Assessing the impact of combat trauma on the severity, expression, and course of posttraumatic stress disorder in justice-involved veterans.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2025Article
- At Risk and Underserved: Veterans Treatment Court Team Member Perspectives on Service Delivery Challenges.Victims & offenders · 2024Article
- Disentangling the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder, criminogenic risk, and criminal history among veterans.Law and human behavior · 2023Article
- Childhood Maltreatment and Use of Aggression among Veterans with Co-occurring PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorder: The Mediating Role of Hostile Cognitions.Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma · 2023Article
- Substance use and criminogenic thinking: Longitudinal latent class analysis of veterans with criminal histories.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
- Correlates of Incarceration History Among Military Veterans.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2022Article
- Criminal legal involvement among recently separated veterans: Findings from the LIMBIC study.Law and human behavior · 2022Article
- Associations among betrayal trauma, dissociative posttraumatic stress symptoms, and substance use among women involved in the criminal legal system in three US cities.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Systematic Review of Criminal and Legal Involvement After Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment Among Veterans: Building Toward Needed Research.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2020Review
- A scoping review of military veterans involved in the criminal justice system and their health and healthcare.Health & justice · 2019Article
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Abstract
Substance misuse is prevalent among veterans entering the criminal justice system, and is related to recidivism. Research demonstrates that trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms, which commonly co-occur with substance misuse, also increase the risk of legal involvement and recidivism. However, it is unclear whether the associations between trauma, PTS symptoms and violent and nonviolent crime may be conflated by substance use. The aim of the present study was to understand the association between PTS symptoms and criminal justice involvement (both violent and nonviolent crime) among substance-using veterans seeking Veterans Affairs (VA) specialty mental health care after accounting for substance use frequency and demographics including age, gender, and ethnicity. Further, this study examined whether specific clusters of PTS were associated with violent and nonviolent veteran offending. Participants included 697 veterans (52 women) aged 21 to 75 (M = 47.49, SD = 13.51) with a history of trauma exposure. Veterans self-reported past-month PTS symptoms, substance use, and lifetime legal charges. Logistic regression results indicated total PTS symptoms were associated with violent, but not nonviolent charges, above and beyond age, sex, race, cocaine use, and heavy alcohol use. Intrusion symptoms, in particular, were associated with violent charges. Results highlight the utility of examining PTS as a multifaceted construct and have implications for the assessment and treatment needs of justice-involved veterans. For example, the findings suggest that treatment needs appear to differ for those reporting violent or nonviolent offending, with a greater need for assessing and treating PTS for those involved with violent crime. (PsycINFO Database Record
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