RT Article
T1 How the prison-to-community transition risk environment influences the experience of men with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder
JF The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
VO 50
IS 1
SP 39
OP 55
A1 Denton, Michelle
A1 Foster, Michele A.
A1 Bland, Robert
A2 Foster, Michele A.
A2 Bland, Robert
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1736842560
AB Previous research has established that people with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorder leaving prison have multiple and complex health, social and economic challenges. How the criminal justice and mental health systems influence the individual prison-to-community transition experience of this population is less well understood. This paper draws on unique qualitative data from a study of 18 men with co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use disorder leaving prison in Queensland, Australia. A repeat in-depth interview method was used to explore the experiences of the men in prison just prior to release and at two points post-release. Two themes are discussed from analysis of interviews: “risk behaviour and relapse” and “once a criminal always a risk”. The findings suggest that individual risk behaviour is structured within a transition risk environment that reduces individual agency, thus facilitating a vicious cycle of release, relapse and reincarceration.
K1 Community
K1 Mental illness
K1 Prison
K1 Risk behaviour
K1 Risk environment
K1 Substance use
K1 Transition
DO 10.1177/0004865815620703