Drug Crime amongst Children and its Prevention

Drug Crime amongst Children and its Prevention

Introduction

Drug abuse is the most common crime which is prevailing in many countries. Heroin, Cocaine, Morphine and many other forms are commonly used forms of drug. It is illegal because it damages the cognitive and overall personality of an individual. It also becomes the direct cause of many crimes. There are also various laws and programs which are prohibiting the usage of drugs in public places. In some countries, the usage of drugs is allowed for some specific places e.g. bars, clubs and other inside rooms.

Like adults, drug abuse is also very badly affects the children. According to one report, there were 1.7 million state and federal people who violated the drug laws and were arrested. In the same way, there were 37% of drug users in the total number of convicted violators (United Nations Office on Drugs, & Crime, 2010). . The children who take the drug are undergoing from emotional and behavioral issues. They have the exposure of drug-related activities in daily life. It is also commonly viewed that their development is disturbed (Giordano, 2010). . Their social and home life becomes aimless, and they prefer to live in the loneliness. They not only become a burden on the family but also on the society. In the long-run, it spoils the whole society.

Discussion

This video has classically represented the notion of drug abuse amongst children, which is considerably growing as amongst the biggest crime in the United States. The video has indirectly shown that this crime does not have a link with the drug industry but with also various other factors that are associated with social structure of the region.

Considering the above given statement, economic conditions directly influence the behavior of individuals in a society, so that crime can be considered one of worst results of economic influences. The video presented the fundamentals of economic analysis drug crime and, from these; several economic studies have tested numerous socio-economic variables to explain drug crime amongst children. The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between market drugs and crime in the cities of United States that is, we analyze empirically the hypothesis that the presence of activity lucrative illegal implies higher returns to crime, raising drug rates crime.

Literary Context of Drug Crime in the Video

Currently, there is an extensive economic literature of drug crime between different factors that can enhance the use and crime in a drug market illegal. However, evidence shown in the video for the illicit market is scarce. Video investigates the hypothesis that the presence of Activity lucrative illegal implies higher expected returns to crime. The video used as the dependent variable rates of drug usage and crime rates. Between the variables shown in the video they use as a proxy for the existence of illegal activities profit rate on drug seizures per hundred thousand inhabitants.

In addition to the drug possession amongst children, they use a binary variable that takes value one if the country is ...