PACKER, G., BEST, David, DAY, E. and WOOD, K. (2009). Criminal thinking and self-control among drug users in court mandated treatment. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 9 (1), 93-110.
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This article aims to explore the relationship between self-control and criminal thinking in a population of drug using offenders attending a court mandated treatment programme, and how this relates to recent offending and substance use. Fifty drug using offenders attending a Birmingham Drug Intervention Programme clinic under the terms of a Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR) completed standardized measures of self-control and criminal thinking. Associations were found between both self-control and criminal thinking and drug use and offending. A strong association was found between low self-control and high criminal thinking. Lower levels of self-control were associated with younger age, and there was some evidence of a link between younger age and higher criminal thinking. The links between drug use and crime are more complex than could be explained by either the self-control model of crime or criminal thinking alone, although the current findings suggest a mediating role for age and indications that drugs-crime linkage is mediated by patterns of substance use and offending.
Item Type: | Article |
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Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Law Research Group |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895808099182 |
Page Range: | 93-110 |
Depositing User: | Hilary Ridgway |
Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2015 11:53 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 10:00 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9376 |
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