Drug use and its effect on Juvenile Delinquency

Drug use and its effect on Juvenile Delinquency

Introduction

The topic of this paper is drug use and its effect on Juvenile Delinquency. Further, it emphasizes that how children and young adults end up becoming criminals. The Juvenile delinquents are usually the ones who are abandoned from their home or they were brought up in the criminal family record where they did not get enough attention. Further, teenagers tend to follow what their companion friends are doing, thus a single drug abuser friend may negatively impact his other friends as well.

Discussion

In United States and in the rest of the world, drug use is associated with crime and particularly juvenile delinquency. The 2005 annual report of the European Union on the relationship between drugs and crime has seen an increase in drug-related crimes and especially cocaine. . The report on drug use in the recently published and ESO has encouraged, in part, this plan policing around schools, states that 1 in 2 respondents say school know where to find cannabis, cocaine and other drugs in their school environment and regular entertainment. These data show the increased prevalence of such drugs among teenagers.

The well known strong effects of drugs on the mental state of the perpetrator (especially in the case of cocaine) that cause the loss of emotional control, increased aggression, loss of rational control of behavior, etc. .. This acting together increases the likelihood, frequency and severity of violence. Between violence and drug addiction there is a mutual relation. For this purpose a new drug user will gradually distancing from peers and more prosaically activities are going on integrating more antisocial youth groups and, consequently, will be exposed to situations in which the use of violence is more and more likely. Regular use of drugs is one of the gateways to the anti-normative behavior, and violent crime and facilitates the emergence of violence.

Drug and juvenile delinquency are often thrown into the same bag, without knowing very clearly what the relationship between them is. To establish the patterns of drug use among children and young offenders and understand the causes and consequences of the phenomenon, a group of members of the Assistance Program and Addiction Research of the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and the Family country, conducted the "Study on social profiles and patterns of use of psychoactive substances among adolescents living in a closed devices".

According to psychologist and sociologist Fabiana Fernando, author of the study, it was observed a linear relationship between the consumption of psychoactive substances and acts lawbreakers. This does not mean that there have been cases in which crimes were committed under the influence of psychoactive substances, but cannot be said that there is a clear association between drug use with the above time and anticipates the commission of crimes.

The researchers emphasized other aspects as stronger determinants of criminal behavior, as a profound picture of exclusion and lack of opportunity in which children grow and ...