To date, there has been no research examining the factors that might lead to being arrested for self-reported criminal abstainers—that is, persons who report that they have refrained from engaging in crime. The current study addressed this gap in the literature and examined whether certain factors were associated with being arrested among a sample of self-reported criminal abstainers. Results generated from binary logistic regression equations of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Ns ranging from 404 to 3567) revealed that arrests were based, in part, on race, sex, and intelligence level. Specifically, African Americans, males, and abstainers who scored lower on intelligence tests were all significantly more likely to be arrested than were Caucasians, females, and abstainers who scored higher on intelligence tests. We conclude by discussing the practical and methodological implications of the study as well as directions for future research.

迄今为止，还没有研究调查可能导致因自我报告的戒酒者而被捕的因素 - 即那些报告说他们没有参与犯罪的人。当前的研究解决了文献中的这一空白，并检查了某些因素是否与在自我报告的犯罪戒酒者样本中被捕有关。从国家青少年到成人健康纵向研究（Ns 范围从 404 到 3567）的数据的二元逻辑回归方程生成的结果显示，逮捕部分基于种族、性别和智力水平。具体而言，在智力测试中得分较低的非裔美国人、男性和戒酒者比白种人、女性、以及在智力测试中得分较高的戒酒者。我们最后讨论了该研究的实践和方法学意义以及未来研究的方向。