Abstract
Prison has proven to be a suitable environment for the identification of various socio-demographic characteristics of those individuals whose drug use, or related crimes lead to incarceration. Furthermore, the prison environment could also support increased understanding of both the pattern and the relationship between drug use and the incidence of crime and deviances. Using the survey method, this study examines the socio-demographic features of 2200 prisoners in seven provinces of Iran. More specifically; drug abuse patterns and the relationship among addiction, crime prevalence, and some personal as well as socio-demographic characteristics were studied. According to the findings, characteristics such as age, education level, economic status, urban and/or rural status, all have an effects on the rate of drug use and, on crime commitment and its re-occurrence. Accordingly, younger age, lower socioeconomic status and urban residence showed a relationship with tendency to commit crime and repeat it while employment had no significant effect.
Highlights
There is little agreement among researchers on which social factors have the greatest impact on social problems, with regard to drug addiction, there is general agreement that considers a society which is experiencing addiction is vulnerable to a breakdown in power
Prison has proven to be a suitable environment for the identification of various socio-demographic characteristics of those individuals whose drug use, or related crimes lead to incarceration
The Addiction Diagnostic Test with four-medicine kits revealed that 65.8% of the prisoners (n=1440) had a record of drug use, which was 13.6% more frequent among urban prisoners (n=1209, 68.5% of the drug user population) than rural prisoners (n=231, 54.9% of the drug user population)
Summary
There is little agreement among researchers on which social factors have the greatest impact on social problems, with regard to drug addiction, there is general agreement that considers a society which is experiencing addiction is vulnerable to a breakdown in power. As a result, this issue is so important that it has attracted the attention of different groups such as physicians, psychologists, sociologists, and police forces (Lietiery et al, 1980). Considering the financial aspects, such growth is devastating and has widespread destructive results This becomes even more serious if the prison environment intensifies the tendency to commit a crime. Prisoners’ Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and its Prevention in Kerman, Islamic Republic of Iran , Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal (EMHJ), 8(6), 725-731
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