[Crime-related aspects in heroin addict patients: relationship between crime and delinquency].
BACKGROUND
Criminological studies have been specially influenced by those social factors relationated with drug dependence. Data from Criminology and Law insist on relationship between social factor and criminological events, but not defining the direction of this correlation.


OBJECTIVE
We present data about criminological situation of an heroin addict patients sample evaluated by consultation-liasion psychiatry in Ramón y Cajal hospital in Madrid. We study legal, social and clinical variables and their relationship.


METHODS
We use descriptive analysis and logistic regression to study social, legal and clinical variables of a 411 patients sample, using clinical report protocol.


CONCLUSIONS
Those patients affected by HIV-1 have higher criminality index, with lower social, economic and educational level than those not affected. These results suggest an interdependence between delinquency and marginality with an early beginning of both.
Madoz-Gúrpide
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Servicio de Psiquiatría. Hospital Ramón y Cajal. Universidad de Alcalá. Madrid. amagur@yahoo.com
Sais-Amorim
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Baca-García
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Ochoa
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D000328:Adult; D003415:Crime / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012044:Regression Analysis