This article describes the
results of a study designed to test whether reactive criminal thinking (RCT)
does a better job of mediating the crime → drug relationship than it does
mediating the drug → crime relationship after the direct effects of crime on drug
use/dependency and of drug use/dependency on crime have been rendered
nonsignificant by control variables.
All 1,170 male members of the Pathways to
Desistance study (Mulvey, 2012) served as participants in the current
investigation. As predicted, the total (unmediated) effects of crime on
substance use/dependence and of substance use/dependence on crime were
nonsignificant when key demographic and third variables were controlled,
although the indirect (RCT-mediated) effect of crime on drug use was significant.
Proactive criminal thinking (PCT), by comparison, failed to mediate either
relationship.
The RCT continued to mediate the crime → drug relationship and
the PCT continued to not mediate either relationship when more specific forms
of offending (aggressive, income) and substance use/dependence (drug use,
substance-use dependency symptoms) were analyzed. This offers preliminary
support for the notion that even when the total crime-drug effect is
nonsignificant the indirect path from crime to reactive criminal thinking to
drugs can still be significant.
Based on these results, it is concluded that
mediation by proximal reactive criminal thinking is a mechanism by which distal
measures of crime and drug use/dependence are connected.
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