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| Title: | Pregnancy and childbirth in relation to receiving the deferred prosecution for amphetamine-type substance-involved female offenders in Taiwan |
| Authors: | Chen, CY;Hsieh, TW;Siew, R;Rei, W;Wang, SC |
| Contributors: | Center for Neuropsychiatric Research |
| Abstract: | Aim: With a focus on a cohort of young female drug offenders arrested for the consumption of scheduled II substance (mostly amphetamine-type), the present study is aimed to examine the role of pregnancy and childbirth in shaping the time to receive the deferred prosecution—a scheme diverting drug offenders to medical treatment. Methods: Building upon the 2011-2019 National Police Criminal Records, a total of 5869 women with ages under 30 arrested for amphetamine-type were identified. Information concerning sociodemographics, history of pregnancy and childbirth, pregnancy/childbirth episode after the index arrest, and drug crime characteristics was obtained through data linkage with the National Health Insurance Database, National Birth Registration, and the Deferred Persecution Dataset. The outcome variable was the time to receive the deferred persecution within the year of the index arrest. Semiparametric Cox proportional hazards model was performed to estimate the risk, with stratified by prior five years’ drug offense. Results: Nearly one quarter of incident and 7.6% re-offenders received the deferred prosecution within the year of the index arrest. The scheduled II drug re-offenders, as compared to the incident ones, were more likely to be pregnant upon the index arrest (8% vs. 4%), have one or more children (27% vs. 18%), and low/unstable income (77% vs. 65%). For the re-offenders, having at least one child and being pregnant at arrest may lower the hazard to receive the deferred prosecution by 41% and 50%, respectively. Low/unstable income and lower educational attainment were linked with 22%~25% reduced hazard. Coversely, for the incident drug offenders, none of reproductive history and sociodemographic characteristics were associated. Having a childbirth after the arrest was unanimously reduce the deferred prosecution by 65%, regardless of prior drug offense. Conclusions: For the re-offending women, having reproductive events (e.g., being pregnant) and disadvantaged socioeconomic condition may reduce the chance to receive the deferred prosecution. |
| Date: | 2024-07-01 |
| Relation: | Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2024 Jul 01;260(Suppl.):Meeting Abstract 110865. |
| Link to: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.110865 |
| JIF/Ranking 2023: | http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=NHRI&SrcApp=NHRI_IR&KeyISSN=0376-8716&DestApp=IC2JCR |
| Cited Times(WOS): | https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:001280690400819 |
| Appears in Collections: | [王聲昌] 會議論文/會議摘要
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