title: Substance use criminality, and social support: an exploratory analysis with incarcerated women.
abstract: This exploratory study examined the extent to which substance use and criminality influence perceptions of social support. A stratified random sample of 100 incarcerated women in one Kentucky prison participated in face-to-face interviews. Overall, findings indicate that perceptions of social support significantly and negatively correlated with women's severity of substance use and criminal involvement. In addition, the breadth of a respondent's social network was negatively related to the age of first incarceration and to the severity of alcohol and drug use. Findings from this study suggest there is a relationship between severity of substance use, criminality, and perceptions of social support. Implications for substance use research and practice are discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky Department of Behavioral Science and Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA. cmstat00@uky.edu
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Staton-Tindall
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Royse
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Leukfeld
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003415:Crime / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007629:Kentucky; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012944:Social Support; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*