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Predicting Desistance or Persistence in the Substance‐Abusing, Mentally Ill, Supervised Offender Population Using Laub and Sampson's (2001) Social Controls and Individual Factors Theory
Author(s) -
Delaney Rodney B.,
Laux John M.,
Piazza Nick J.,
Ritchie Martin H.,
Jenkins Morris
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of addictions and offender counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2161-1874
pISSN - 1055-3835
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1874.2014.00020.x
Subject(s) - persistence (discontinuity) , psychology , mentally ill , population , recidivism , substance abuse , substance use , psychiatry , clinical psychology , demography , mental health , mental illness , sociology , geotechnical engineering , engineering
This study investigated the relationship that social controls and individual factors have on the persistence rate in the substance‐abusing, mentally ill, supervised offender population ( N = 886). The data predicted 83% of persistence.