@article{0fd822098b514924b175808b67418c8d,
title = "Substance Use Pathways Among Female Adolescent Offenders",
abstract = "This study tested a general strain theory (GST) model across two times with an ethnically diverse sample of 184 female adolescent offenders. We tested whether exposure to violence was associated with girls{\textquoteright} emotions and substance use. We found that (a) hostility mediated the relationship between experiencing violence and alcohol use at Time 1; (b) hostility mediated the relationship between witnessing violence and alcohol use at Time 1; and (c) depressive symptoms mediated the relationship between experiencing violence and marijuana use at Time 2. These mediated effects were minimal in magnitude given that that the bivariate relationships between violence exposure and substance use were small or nonsignificant. Exposure to violence was associated with negative emotions across both models.",
keywords = "exposure to violence, female adolescent offenders, general strain theory, pathways theory, substance use",
author = "Vera Lopez and Albert Kopak and Lisa Pasko",
note = "Funding Information: Data for the current study were drawn from the Pathways to Desistance (PTD) project, a multisite effort to examine changes in criminal activity among serious adolescent offenders (Mulvey, 2013). This study followed over 1,000 adolescent offenders in Maricopa County, Arizona, and Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, from 2000 to 2010. The PTD project was created to examine the relative impact of juvenile justice practices and life changes among serious adolescent offenders. The project recruited 1,345 adjudicated adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17 at the time of committing their offense. Youth were deemed eligible through a process involving review of court files, which determine they had been found guilty of a serious criminal offense. Adolescents who committed any felony offense were eligible, but those who were adjudicated for less serious property crimes, misdemeanor weapons offenses, and misdemeanor sexual assault were excluded. In addition, male offenders adjudicated for drug offenses were limited to 15% of the sample to maintain heterogeneity, while all female offenders meeting the age and offense requirements remained eligible, even if they were charged with a drug offense. See Mulvey (2004) and Schubert et al. (2004) for detailed information about the methodology and data collection procedures used by the researchers who supervised the data collection process. The data were deposited for public access as part of the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP), a collaborative project sponsored by the University of Michigan{\textquoteright}s Inter-University Consortium for Police and Social Science Research (ICPSR), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2018.",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0011128718811930",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "65",
pages = "375--400",
journal = "Crime and Delinquency",
issn = "0011-1287",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "3",
}