Search Results

Source: Tobacco Use Insights
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Hassett-Walker, Connie
The Longitudinal Impact of Arrest, Criminal Conviction, and Incarceration on Smoking Classes
Tobacco Use Insights published online (24 May 2022): DOI: 10.1177/1179173X221089710.
Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1179173X221089710
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Arrests; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Criminal Justice System; Incarceration/Jail

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Background: Previous research identifies three to six smoking classes over the life course. This study expands on earlier work about the impact of getting arrested in early adulthood on individuals' smoking classes, by including additional, more serious measures of justice system involvement (JSI), specifically criminal conviction and incarceration. Family processes were examined as secondary outcomes.

Method: Data from seventeen waves (1997-2015) of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were analyzed via group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM), multinomial logistic regression, and latent transition analyses (LTA). Smoking behavior through age 36 is examined. Marital status, parenthood, juvenile smoking, juvenile arrest, and prior crime victimization experiences were also included in the models.

Results: Seven smoking classes were revealed: two low- or non-smoking classes; two decreasing classes; and three "problem" smoking (e.g., increasing, or chronic) classes. All JSI types increased the likelihood of being in a smoking class rather than a non-smoking class. Arrest and conviction had larger odds ratios than the most severe form of JSI--incarceration--with respect to respondents' likelihood of being in an increasing or chronic smoking class. Juvenile smoking was the most robust predictor of smoking in adulthood.

Bibliography Citation
Hassett-Walker, Connie. "The Longitudinal Impact of Arrest, Criminal Conviction, and Incarceration on Smoking Classes." Tobacco Use Insights published online (24 May 2022): DOI: 10.1177/1179173X221089710.
2. Hassett-Walker, Connie
Shadden, Mark
Examining Arrest and Cigarette Smoking in Emerging Adulthood
Tobacco Use Insights published online (6 February 2020): DOI: 10.1177/1179173X20904350.
Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1179173X20904350
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Arrests; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Transition, Adulthood

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Background: Despite prior studies, transitions in smoking patterns are not fully understood. Getting arrested may alter an individual's smoking pattern through processes proscribed by the criminological labeling theory. This study examined how arrest during emerging adulthood altered smoking behavior during subsequent years and whether there were differential effects by race/ethnicity and gender.

Methods: We analyzed 15 waves of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Multinomial logistic regressions were performed using Stata software version 14.

Results: For both genders, arrested black men and women had the most distinct smoking transitions (both increases and decreases) as compared with their non-arrested counterparts. Among men, particularly black males, arrest in early adulthood was associated with the men transitioning to both increased and decreased smoking. Patterns in smoking transitions for women were less clear, suggesting that women's smoking may be influenced by factors not in the models. Women had a low probability of starting to smoke or increasing smoking if they were never arrested between 18 and 21 years of age.

Bibliography Citation
Hassett-Walker, Connie and Mark Shadden. "Examining Arrest and Cigarette Smoking in Emerging Adulthood." Tobacco Use Insights published online (6 February 2020): DOI: 10.1177/1179173X20904350.