TY - JOUR
T1 - Substance Use Disorders, Comorbidity, and Arrest Among Indigenous Adolescents
AU - Sittner Hartshorn, Kelley J.
AU - Whitbeck, Les B.
AU - Prentice, Patricia
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA13580) and the National Institute of Mental Health (MH67281), and Les B. Whitbeck, principal investigator.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2012, © The Author(s) 2012.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Indigenous adolescents are overrepresented at multiple stages of the justice system, but we know very little about the role that mental health, particularly substance use disorder, plays in Indigenous pathways to arrest. This study examined the association between substance use disorder, its comorbidity with other disorders, and arrest using a longitudinal sample of Indigenous youth from the Northern Midwest and Canada. Of the 16% of youth who reported at least one arrest at Wave 5, half met criteria for substance abuse/dependence and slightly more for conduct disorder. Substance abuse/dependence and conduct disorder were each associated with an increased risk of arrest, although co-occurring disorders were not. The reciprocal effects of arrest and mental disorder are discussed.
AB - Indigenous adolescents are overrepresented at multiple stages of the justice system, but we know very little about the role that mental health, particularly substance use disorder, plays in Indigenous pathways to arrest. This study examined the association between substance use disorder, its comorbidity with other disorders, and arrest using a longitudinal sample of Indigenous youth from the Northern Midwest and Canada. Of the 16% of youth who reported at least one arrest at Wave 5, half met criteria for substance abuse/dependence and slightly more for conduct disorder. Substance abuse/dependence and conduct disorder were each associated with an increased risk of arrest, although co-occurring disorders were not. The reciprocal effects of arrest and mental disorder are discussed.
KW - American Indian/Alaska Native
KW - criminal arrest
KW - delinquency
KW - mental disorder
KW - substance use disorder
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U2 - 10.1177/0011128712466372
DO - 10.1177/0011128712466372
M3 - Article
C2 - 26759503
AN - SCOPUS:84945953632
SN - 0011-1287
VL - 61
SP - 1311
EP - 1332
JO - Crime and Delinquency
JF - Crime and Delinquency
IS - 10
ER -