Criminological aspects in heroin addict patients: Relationship between criminology and delincuency

Abstract

Background: Criminological studies have been specially influented by those social factors relationated with drug dependence. Data from Criminology and Law insist on relationship between social factor and criminological events, but not defining the direction of this correlation.

Objects: We present data about criminological situation of an heroin addict patients sample evaluated by consultation-liasion psychiatry in Ramón y Cajal hospital in Madrid. We study legal, social and clinical variables and their relationship.

Method: We use descriptive analysis and logistic regression to study social, legal and clinical variables of a 411 patients sample, using clinical report protocol.

Conclusions: Those patients affected by HIV-1 have higher criminality index, with lower social, economic and educational level than those not affected. These results suggest an interdependence between delincuency and marginality with an early beginning of both.