RT Article
T1 Correlates of Drug Use among Offenders in Some Prisons in Ghana
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 65
IS 16
SP 1703
OP 1715
A1 Parimah, Feikoab
A2 Owusu, Jonathan Osei
A2 Solomon, Akumun T.
A2 Appiah-Honny, Sylvester Anthony
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1775775984
AB Among others, the study sought to find out whether being convicted of the possession of marijuana for personal use for the first time or multiple times, would predict marijuana, and other drug use within the past 30 days. Using a cross-sectional survey, two hundred and fifty three (253) male offenders were conveniently sampled from three prisons in Ghana. The average age of participants was 31.26 (SD = 10.19). It was established that those who had been convicted of the possession of marijuana for personal use for the first time were likely to have used marijuana within the past 30 days (OR = 4.15, 95% CI = 2.00, 8.58), and other drugs within the past 30 days (OR = 2.44, 95% CI = 1.09, 5.47). Also, those who were recidivist robbers were likely to have used other drugs within the past 30 days (OR = 6.63, 95% CI = 2.55, 17.25). These, and other findings are discussed.
K1 Recidivism
K1 Prison
K1 Robbery
K1 Marijuana
K1 Drug use
K1 Offenders
DO 10.1177/0306624X20964143