"'I am drug dependent': a study of self-identification and prior crimin" by Cameron T. Langfield and Jason L. Payne
Identity theories have long influenced criminological thinking, and much of that work warns of deviant certification and negative appraisals as promoting criminal continuity. In the drug-use literature, similar themes have emerged linking drug-use continuity to the strength of one’s identity as ‘dependent’ or ‘addicted’ to drugs. Using archival data drawn from the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program, we explore the correlation between criminal justice contact and the self-identification of a drug dependency among a sample of recent drug-using police detainees. We find, ho...
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