Table 4.
Non-serious acquisitive crime subcategories: offending rate, rate ratio and age-adjusted rate ratio, by drug test result and gender.
| Men, n = 107,573 |
Women, n = 32,352 |
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| Offence category | Group | % | Rate | RR | aRR | % | Rate | RR | aRR |
| Shoplifting | Dually negative | 9.3 | 0.111 | Ref. | Ref. | 10.6 | 0.110 | Ref. | Ref. |
| Cocaine-only | 8.3 | 0.114 | 1.03 [1.00, 1.07] | 1.00 [0.96, 1.03] | 19.0 | 0.246 | 2.25 [2.12, 2.39] | 2.18 [2.05, 2.32] | |
| Opiate-only | 26.1 | 0.430 | 3.89 [3.78, 4.01] | 3.49 [3.38, 3.60] | 32.4 | 0.524 | 4.78 [4.54, 5.03] | 4.71 [4.47, 4.96] | |
| Opiate and cocaine | 28.0 | 0.504 | 4.56 [4.45, 4.68] | 4.05 [3.95, 4.16] | 38.0 | 0.700 | 6.38 [6.14, 6.63] | 6.16 [5.92, 6.41] | |
| Other theft and handling | Dually negative | 13.2 | 0.105 | Ref. | Ref. | 12.5 | 0.102 | Ref. | Ref. |
| Cocaine-only | 8.5 | 0.066 | 0.63 [0.60, 0.66] | 0.64 [0.61, 0.67] | 10.7 | 0.089 | 0.87 [0.79, 0.95] | 0.86 [0.78, 0.95] | |
| Opiate-only | 14.7 | 0.118 | 1.12 [1.06, 1.18] | 1.15 [1.09, 1.21] | 15.2 | 0.128 | 1.25 [1.14, 1.37] | 1.24 [1.13, 1.36] | |
| Opiate and cocaine | 15.0 | 0.123 | 1.17 [1.13, 1.22] | 1.20 [1.15, 1.26] | 15.1 | 0.140 | 1.37 [1.28, 1.46] | 1.35 [1.26, 1.45] | |
| Fraud and forgery | Dually negative | 6.1 | 0.067 | Ref. | Ref. | 8.2 | 0.098 | Ref. | Ref. |
| Cocaine-only | 3.3 | 0.037 | 0.56 [0.53, 0.59] | 0.53 [0.50, 0.56] | 6.9 | 0.084 | 0.86 [0.78, 0.95] | 0.83 [0.76, 0.92] | |
| Opiate-only | 4.9 | 0.056 | 0.85 [0.78, 0.91] | 0.73 [0.68, 0.79] | 9.0 | 0.108 | 1.10 [1.00, 1.22] | 1.04 [0.94, 1.15] | |
| Opiate and cocaine | 4.8 | 0.055 | 0.83 [0.78, 0.88] | 0.71 [0.67, 0.75] | 8.4 | 0.104 | 1.07 [0.99, 1.15] | 0.99 [0.91, 1.07] | |
| Drug supply offences | Dually negative | 2.6 | 0.032 | Ref. | Ref. | 1.0 | 0.009 | Ref. | Ref. |
| Cocaine-only | 3.2 | 0.038 | 1.20 [1.13, 1.28] | 1.23 [1.15, 1.31] | 2.1 | 0.021 | 2.19 [1.78, 2.69] | 2.07 [1.68, 2.55] | |
| Opiate-only | 4.0 | 0.059 | 1.86 [1.72, 2.00] | 2.04 [1.88, 2.20] | 3.0 | 0.035 | 3.70 [3.05, 4.47] | 3.51 [2.89, 4.25] | |
| Opiate and cocaine | 3.6 | 0.057 | 1.79 [1.68, 1.90] | 1.97 [1.85, 2.11] | 2.7 | 0.037 | 3.92 [3.37, 4.56] | 3.56 [3.05, 4.16] | |
| Theft from person | Dually negative | 1.3 | 0.009 | Ref. | Ref. | 1.2 | 0.010 | Ref. | Ref. |
| Cocaine-only | 1.0 | 0.007 | 0.77 [0.66, 0.89] | 0.81 [0.70, 0.94] | 1.9 | 0.015 | 1.60 [1.26, 2.02] | 1.62 [1.28, 2.06] | |
| Opiate-only | 1.6 | 0.011 | 1.25 [1.05, 1.48] | 1.45 [1.22, 1.74] | 1.9 | 0.014 | 1.44 [1.09, 1.91] | 1.52 [1.15, 2.02] | |
| Opiate and cocaine | 1.8 | 0.015 | 1.68 [1.48, 1.90] | 1.97 [1.73, 2.25] | 3.5 | 0.032 | 3.37 [2.87, 3.94] | 3.56 [3.02, 4.19] | |
| Prostitution | Dually negative | 0.3 | 0.003 | Ref. | Ref. | ||||
| Cocaine-only | 3.2 | 0.043 | 13.0 [10.6, 15.9] | 12.1 [9.90, 14.9] | |||||
| Opiate-only | 2.4 | 0.028 | 8.45 [6.63, 10.8] | 7.54 [5.91, 9.63] | |||||
| Opiate and cocaine | 7.3 | 0.096 | 28.8 [24.2, 34.2] | 24.9 [20.9, 29.7] | |||||
% = percentage with crime over follow-up; rate = rate of offending per person year; RR = rate ratio; aRR = rate ratio adjusted for age (counts of offences and age-covariate estimates available in Appendix C).