ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2019
Explaining continuity in substance use: The role of criminal justice system involvement over the life course of an urban African American prospective cohort.
Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Recent incarceration and minoritized racial status as barriers to the effectiveness of recovery management checkups.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Trial
- Offending and the Long-Term Risk of Death: An Examination of Mid-Life Mortality Among an Urban Black American Cohort.The British journal of criminology · 2023Article
- Cohort Profile: The Woodlawn Study.Journal of developmental and life-course criminology · 2023Article
- Characterizing Arrest and Incarceration in a Prospective Cohort of Transgender Women.Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care · 2023Article
- Understanding the Association Between Mental Health Knowledge and Mental Health Service Utilization Among Black Adults.Community mental health journal · 2023Article
- Patterns and contexts of polysubstance use among young and older adults who are involved in the criminal legal system and use opioids: A mixed methods study.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
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- What's drugs got to do with it? Examining the relationship between drug onset and duration with criminal outcomes in an African American cohort.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Breaching Trust: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Experiences of People Who Use Drugs in a Rural Setting.Frontiers in sociology · 2020Article
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backgroundAfrican Americans are disproportionately burdened by substance use consequences and criminal justice system involvement, yet their interrelationship over the life course is not well understood. This study aimed to assess how substance use, crime, and justice system involvement may influence one another from adolescence to midlife.
methodsData come from a community cohort of urban African Americans first assessed in childhood and followed up into midlife (n = 1242, 606 males, 636 females). We draw on interview data and local, state, and federal criminal records. Participants were assessed at ages 6, 16, 32, and 42, with additional record retrieval at age 52. Utilizing structural equation modeling, we estimate pathways between substance use, criminal behavior, and arrests over time by gender.
resultsFor males, significant paths were found between childhood behavioral problems and adolescent substance use, delinquency, and police interactions. For females, a significant path was found between childhood behavioral problems and only adolescent delinquency. We observed continuity between substance use and between arrest constructs from adolescence through midlife for men only. Direct paths were found between substance use and later arrests for both males and females. Paths were also observed between arrests and later substance use for both genders.
conclusionsFindings of reciprocal relationships highlight the critical need to break the cycle of substance use and crime and point to specific times in the life course when intervention is necessary. Findings introduce the potential role of the criminal justice system as a key intervention agent in redirecting substance use careers.
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