In:
Criminal Justice and Behavior, SAGE Publications, Vol. 41, No. 3 ( 2014-03), p. 318-336
Abstract:
A burgeoning criminological literature has identified important intersections between public health, crime, and antisocial behavior. This study is based on public-use data collected between 2006 and 2010 as part of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and an analytical sample of men ( N = 84,054) and women ( N = 95,308) between the ages of 18 and 64. Latent class analysis (LCA) identified three classes: a large normative group, a small drug-involved group, and a criminal-justice-involved group. Chronic health conditions that are more closely associated with longer term medical problems and perhaps cumulative stress such as heart disease and diabetes are not linked to criminal-justice-system-involved or drug-involved offenders. Medical problems that are more closely related to an antisocial lifestyle such as sexually transmitted diseases, pancreatitis, and hepatitis were found to be more prevalent among antisocial subgroups in this sample.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0093-8548
,
1552-3594
DOI:
10.1177/0093854813504405
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2014
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1500128-3
SSG:
2
SSG:
2,1
SSG:
5,2
