Predicting Desistance or Persistence in the Substance‐Abusing,Mentally Ill,Supervised Offender Population Using Laub and Sampson's (2001) Social Controls and Individual Factors Theory |
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| Authors: | Rodney B Delaney John M Laux Nick J Piazza Martin H Ritchie Morris Jenkins |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Counselor EducationUniversity of Toledo.;2. Department of Criminal JusticeUniversity of Toledo. |
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| Abstract: | This study investigated the relationship that social controls and individual factors have on the persistence rate in the substance‐abusing, mentally ill, supervised offender population (N = 886). The data predicted 83% of persistence. |
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| Keywords: | desistance substance‐abusing mentally ill offenders |
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