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A Dyadic Analysis of Criminal Justice Involvement and Sexual HIV Risk Behaviors Among Drug-Involved Men in Community Corrections and Their Intimate Partners in New York City: Implications for Prevention, Treatment and Policies
- Source :
- AIDS Behav
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- People in community corrections have rates of HIV and sexual risk behaviors that are much higher than the general population. Prior literature suggests that criminal justice involvement is associated with increased sexual risk behaviors, yet these studies focus on incarceration and use one-sided study designs that only collect data from one partner. To address gaps in the literature, this study used the Actor Partner-Interdependence Model with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), to perform a dyadic analysis estimating individual (actor-only) partner-only, and dyadic patterns (actor-partner) of criminal justice involvement and greater sexual risks in a sample of 227 men on probation and their intimate partners in New York City, United States. Standard errors were bootstrapped with 10,000 replications to reduce bias in the significance tests. Goodness of fit indices suggested adequate or better model fit for all the models. Significant actor-only relationships included associations between exposures to arrest, misdemeanor convictions, time spent in jail or prison, felony convictions, lifetime number of incarceration events, prior conviction for disorderly conduct and increased sexual risk behaviors. Partner only effects included significant associations between male partners conviction for a violent crime and their female partners’ sexual risk behaviors. Men’s encounters with police and number of prior misdemeanors were associated with their own and intimate partners’ sexual risk behaviors. Women’s prior arrest was associated with their own and intimate partners’ sexual risk behaviors. The results from the present study suggest that men on probation and their intimate partners’ criminal justice involvement are associated with increased engagement in sexual risk behaviors. It is necessary to conduct greater research into developing dyadic sexual risk reduction and HIV/STI prevention interventions for people who are involved in the criminal justice system.
- Subjects :
- Male
Social Psychology
Sexual Behavior
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Population
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Psychological intervention
HIV Infections
Prison
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Risk-Taking
0302 clinical medicine
Criminal Law
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
education
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education.field_of_study
030505 public health
Misdemeanor
celebrities
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
United States
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Health psychology
Policy
Sexual Partners
Infectious Diseases
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Conviction
Female
New York City
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Disorderly conduct
Clinical psychology
Criminal justice
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733254 and 10907165
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AIDS and Behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e6f6db76c72717613e920aebaa1cc1df
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-020-03019-5