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Correlates of property crime in a cohort of recently released prisoners with a history of injecting drug use

Overview of attention for article published in Harm Reduction Journal, August 2015
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Title
Correlates of property crime in a cohort of recently released prisoners with a history of injecting drug use
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Harm Reduction Journal, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12954-015-0057-y
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Amy Kirwan, Brendan Quinn, Rebecca Winter, Stuart A. Kinner, Paul Dietze, Mark Stoové

Abstract

Injecting drug use (IDU) is a strong predictor of recidivism and re-incarceration in ex-prisoners. Although the links between drug use and crime are well documented, studies examining post-release criminal activity and re-incarceration risk among ex-prisoners with a history of IDU are limited. We aimed to explore factors associated with property crime among people with a history of IDU recently released from prison. Individuals with a history of IDU released from prison within the past month were recruited via targeted and snowball sampling methods from street drug markets and services for people who inject drugs (PWID) into a 6-month cohort study. A multivariate logistic regression analysis of baseline data identified adjusted associations with self-reported property crime soon after release. Interviews were conducted a median of 23 days post-release with 141 participants. Twenty-eight percent reported property crime in this period and 85 % had injected drugs since release. Twenty-three percent reported injecting at least daily. Reporting daily injecting (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 4.36; 95 % confidence interval (CI) = 1.45-13.07), illicit benzodiazepine use (aOR = 2.59; 95 % CI = 1.02-5.67), being arrested (aOR = 6.12; 95 % CI = 1.83-20.45) and contact with mental health services (aOR = 4.27; 95 % CI = 1.45-12.60) since release were associated with property crime. Criminal activity soon after release was common in this sample of PWID, underscoring the need for improved pre-release, transitional and post-release drug use dependence and prevention programmes. Addressing co-occurring mental disorder and poly-pharmaceutical misuse among those with a history of IDU in prison, and during the transition to the community, may reduce property crime in this group.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 68 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 18%
Student > Master 8 12%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 26 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 14 21%
Social Sciences 10 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 28 41%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 January 2016.
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#7,711,730
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#747
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#82,540
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#9
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