This paper examines how negative reactions to arrest, adjudication, and incarceration relate to substance use among young males who are incarcerated. It developes 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 medium security facility is associated with negative reactions to processing, especially a sense of injustice about arrest and adjudication and isolation in the institution.
Negative reactions to processing and substance use among young incarcerated males
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