Women and Criminal Justice
Volume 26, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 165-179

Sex Trading Among Hazardously Drinking Jailed Women (Article)

Schonbrun Y.C.* , Johnson J. , Anderson B.J. , Stein M.D.
  • a Butler Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
  • b Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Division of Public Health, Flint, MI, United States
  • c Butler Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
  • d Butler Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

Abstract

For women involved in sex trading, both alcohol problems and passage through the criminal justice system are highly prevalent. This study is the 1st to conduct a focused examination of factors associated with sex trading among hazardously drinking, pretrial, jailed women. Cocaine use, social support for alcohol abstinence, and more days incarcerated in the 90 days leading up to the index incarceration were significantly associated with sex trading involvement among alcoholic women. Helping incarcerated alcoholic women reduce cocaine use and improve sober support networks during and following an incarceration may minimize sex trading after release. © 2016, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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sex trading Women Alcohol jail incarceration

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84945421011&doi=10.1080%2f08974454.2015.1083931&partnerID=40&md5=42d294c813bf61710f4b3f07d80c523f
DOI: 10.1080/08974454.2015.1083931
ISSN: 08974454
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English