@article{3045422,
    title = "CRIMINALITY IN A SAMPLE OF DRUG-ABUSERS IN GREECE",
    author = "KOKKEVI, A and LIAPPAS, J and BOUKOUVALA, V and ALEVIZOU, V and and ANASTASSOPOULOU, E and STEFANIS, C",
    journal = "Drug and Alcohol Dependence",
    year = "1993",
    volume = "31",
    number = "2",
    pages = "111-121",
    publisher = "ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD",
    issn = "0376-8716",
    doi = "10.1016/0376-8716(93)90063-V",
    keywords = "DRUG ABUSE; CRIMINALITY; PREDICTORS; GREECE",
    abstract = "Criminality as expressed by self-reported arrests and convictions was
studied in a sample of 294 drug - mainly heroin -abusing subjects,
77.6% of whom had been arrested and 57.1% convicted. The majority had
more than one arrest or conviction for a variety of crimes.  Arrests and
convictions for other than drug offences outnumbered the drug offences.
Only a minority of the subjects were responsible for the majority of
criminal acts. In half of the subjects, involvement in criminality
predated initiation to heroin use. Gender, polydrug use, unemployment,
low education level-not injecting heroin as main mode of use-were found
to be among the main factors significantly predicting criminality."
}