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dc.contributor.authorDenton, M.
dc.contributor.authorFoster, Michele M.
dc.contributor.authorBland, R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-13T08:03:37Z
dc.date.available2018-04-13T08:03:37Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1837-9273
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0004865815620703
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/172951
dc.description.abstractPrevious research has established that people with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorder leaving prison have multiple and complex health, social and economic challenges. How the criminal justice and mental health systems influence the individual prison-to-community transition experience of this population is less well understood. This paper draws on unique qualitative data from a study of 18 men with co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use disorder leaving prison in Queensland, Australia. A repeat in-depth interview method was used to explore the experiences of the men in prison just prior to release and at two points post-release. Two themes are discussed from analysis of interviews: “risk behaviour and relapse” and “once a criminal always a risk”. The findings suggest that individual risk behaviour is structured within a transition risk environment that reduces individual agency, thus facilitating a vicious cycle of release, relapse and reincarceration.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto17
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440299
dc.titleHow the prison-to-community transition risk environment influences the experience of men with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFoster, Michele M.


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