Chunk #27 — 2. Results — 3.8 Incarceration and criminal activity

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Sex differences amongst dependent heroin users: histories, clinical characteristics and predictors of other substance dependence.

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Eighty per cent of participants had ever been arrested. Males had a longer total time in prison and longer sentences than females. Males had a higher risk of incarceration, criminal activity and arrest, and committed different types of crime than females (Table 4).