Given the paucity of research with female inmates, yet their increasing numbers, there is a need to better understand risk factors for their incarceration. The proposed research attempts to clarify the roles of alcohol use disorders (AUDs), cognitive deficits, and developmental risk factors by considering their separate and interactive roles in predicting incarceration in women. Comparisons will be made between samples of female inmates, with and without AUDs, and female alcoholics recruited from treatment centers. Dependent measures include demographics, alcohol and other substance use histories, cognitive functioning, and developmental risk factors such as family histories of substance abuse and incarceration, childhood abuse, and childhood psychopathology.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Type
Small Research Grants (R03)
Project #
5R03AA012097-02
Application #
6168471
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZAA1-FF (01))
Project Start
1999-09-28
Project End
2002-08-31
Budget Start
2000-09-01
Budget End
2002-08-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2000
Total Cost
$67,003
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Department
Psychiatry
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
878648294
City
Oklahoma City
State
OK
Country
United States
Zip Code
73117
Phillips, Julia A; Nixon, Sara Jo; Pfefferbaum, Betty (2002) A comparison of substance abuse among female offender subtypes. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 30:513-9