Relationships between substance use and lucrative delinquency among adolescents
Adolescence is often the cradle for several co-occurring deviant behaviours. Substance use (SU) and delinquency are among these behaviours and have multiple, sometimes complex, relationships. This study explores the economic-compulsive drug-delinquency model among youth. More specifically, its goal is to 1) draw a portrait of SU habits and the monetary-gain oriented delinquency of the youth in the sample ; 2) document the relationship between SU severity and the commission of lucrative crimes ; and 3) document the relationship between the type of substance used and the commission of lucrative crimes. Finally, this article 4) looks at the interaction between the type of substance used and gender in predicting lucrative crimes. A questionnaire on the severity of SU (DEP-ADO) and another on delinquency (MASPAQ) were administered to 1,447 youth aged from 15 to 18 years. The results make it possible to both consider and nuance the economic-compulsive model of SU among youths.