Negative Reactions to Processing and Substance Use Among Young Incarcerated Males

• NCJ Number: 105371
• Journal: Deviant Behavior Volume: 8 Issue: 2 Dated: (1987) Pages: 131-148
• Author(s): L Lanza-Kaduce; M Radosevich
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 17 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper examines how negative reactions to arrest, adjudication, and incarceration relate to substance use among young males who are incarcerated.

Abstract

It develops scales from Matza's presentation of a sense of injustice and from the theory and research on prisonization. Discriminant function analysis shows that substance use of inmates at a minimum-security facility is associated with negative reactions to processing, especially a sense of injustice about arrest and adjudication and isolation in the institution. (Publisher abstract)