The drug-crime nexus has received interest from both drug-crime scholars and public policy experts internationally. While there is little disagreement that drug use is linked to higher rates of crime, causation remains hotly contested. One area of emerging interest is the confounding influence of “identity” in shaping long-term behavioral drug use and criminal trajectories. In this study, we explore the prevalence with which recent drug-using police detainees self-identify as drug-dependent and, using logistic regression, model self-identification as a function of one’s demographic, and drug-use profile. We find that being female and younger is associated with an increased odds of self-identifying oneself as dependent, controlling for drug use variables. Of the five drug types, primary heroin users are the most likely to self-identify, whereas cocaine, cannabis, and amphetamine users are less likely. To end, the potential implications of these results are discussed, and future research avenues are explored.

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哪些因素可以预测澳大利亚警察被拘留者对药物依赖的自我认同？刑事司法系统的普遍性、相关性和影响

毒品犯罪之间的联系受到了国际毒品犯罪学者和公共政策专家的关注。虽然几乎没有人反对吸毒与较高的犯罪率有关，但因果关系仍然存在激烈争论。一个新兴的兴趣领域是“身份”在塑造长期吸毒行为和犯罪轨迹方面的混杂影响。在这项研究中，我们探讨了最近吸毒的警察被拘留者自我认定为毒品依赖者的普遍性，并使用逻辑回归将自我认定建模为一个人的人口统计和吸毒情况的函数。我们发现，女性和年轻与自我认同为依赖的可能性增加有关，控制吸毒变量。在五种毒品类型中，主要海洛因使用者最有可能自我认同，而可卡因、大麻和苯丙胺使用者的可能性较小。最后，讨论了这些结果的潜在影响，并探索了未来的研究途径。