Citation

Oser C, Leukefeld C, Staton-Tindall M, Duvall J, Garrity T, Stoops W, Falck RS, Wang J, Carlson R, Sexton R, Wright P, Booth B. Crime Delinq. 2011; 57(4): 600-621.

Affiliation

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, 1531 Patterson Office Tower, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, cboser0@uky.edu , .

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0011128708325048

PMID

21686091

PMCID

PMC3115620

Abstract

Despite the increase in media attention on "meth cooking" in rural areas of the United States, little is known about rural stimulant use, particularly the criminality associated with stimulant use. Data were collected from community stimulant users in rural Ohio, Arkansas, and Kentucky (N=709). Findings from three logistic regression models indicate that younger stimulant users (x =32.55, SD = 10.35), those with more convictions, and those who used crack frequently were significantly more likely to have been arrested for committing a substance-related crime, a property crime, or another crime in the 6-months before entering the study. Implications include the need for longitudinal studies to further understand rural stimulant use as well as increasing community and corrections-based drug abuse prevention and treatment interventions for stimulant users who live in rural areas.

Language: en