Patterns of Substance Involvement and Criminal Behavior: A Gender-based Cluster Analysis of Pennsylvania Arrestees
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Recent drug-crime scholarship has underscored the importance of conducting disaggregated research that focuses on the consistencies and variations between subcategories of drug misuse and criminal activity and, further, how these associations may vary across sociodemographic and cultural boundaries. The research presented in this article used cluster analysis to independently classify male and female arrestees based on their arrest charges and substance-specific indicators of initiation, use, dependence, and treatment need. The data come from Pennsylvania’s Substance Abuse and Need for Treatment Among Arrestees study conducted as part of the State Treatment Needs Assessment Program. Five groups were identified in both the male and female cluster analyses. The results reveal both important differences and strong similarities in the drug-crime typologies of male and female arrestees. Given these findings, implications are discussed for developing and targeting responsive treatment services that match the particular risks and needs of drug-involved offenders.
‘Patterns of Substance Involvement and Criminal Behavior: A Gender-based Cluster Analysis of Pennsylvania Arrestees’, and International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 52 (4) (2008): 435–453. Published by SAGE Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission.
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