Criminogenic Needs and Legal Problem Severity Among Legal System Involved Veterans.

Autor:	Bowdring MA; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA., Macia KS; National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA., Shaffer PM; Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.; VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA 01730, USA., Smelson D; Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.; VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA 01730, USA., Blonigen DM; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.; HSR&D Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Military medicine [Mil Med] 2024 Jul 03; Vol. 189 (7-8), pp. e1544-e1551.
DOI:	10.1093/milmed/usad472
Abstrakt:	Background: Many veterans seeking behavioral health services have history of criminal-legal involvement. Research on criminogenic needs of legal system involved veterans is burgeoning. However, most research has relied on cross-sectional examinations and the vast majority of prior work has focused assessment on just one criminogenic need per study. Methods: The present study evaluated seven key criminogenic needs of legal system involved veterans (N = 341) enrolled in one of three U.S. Veterans Health Administration residential behavioral health treatment programs. Criminogenic needs and legal problem severity were assessed at baseline, and at 6 months and 12 months post-baseline. Directionality of associations between participants' criminogenic needs and legal problem severity was examined using latent change score models. Results: Results revealed having more antisocial associates at a previous timepoint was associated with greater subsequent improvements in legal problem severity ($\beta $=-0.01, P < 0.02) and greater improvements in legal problem severity predicted greater subsequent improvements in alcohol problem severity ($\beta $=0.13, P < 0.01). Conclusions: In one of the most comprehensive single-study assessments of criminogenic needs among a sample of legal system involved veterans, results highlight links between antisocial associates and alcohol problem severity with legal problem severity. (© The Association of Military Surgeons of the United States 2023. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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