title: Recidivism in youthful heroin offenders and characteristics of parole behavior and environment.
abstract: An investigation was made of the association between the postrelease circumstances and behavior of 79 youthful heroin offenders and parole outcome. The data suggest that steady employment and the absence of drug use on parole are significantly related to parole success and to each other.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003415:Crime; D004651:Employment; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D012931:Social Environment