Relationship between Drug Abuse and Crimes

Relationship between Drug Abuse and Crimes

Introduction

The need to reduce drug-related crime is today recognized as an important policy objective across the world. The agreement on a clear definition the concept of drug related crime an important first step on the way to the development of methodologies is that we need to experience the real extent of the problem and also the effectiveness of policies and evaluate actions against the phenomenon (Edmonton, 2009).

Discussion

Defining Drug-related crimes

In this section, we briefly present the different kinds of links between use drugs and crime can explain the simultaneous presence of these two behaviors. Any attempt to define a standard for such a complex phenomenon as to characterize the drug-related crime is inevitably reductive. Such definition of drug-related crime is a necessary condition for the attempt of its scale, design and to identify trends (La Rosa, et al. 1990).

Relationship

A number of explanations proposed have been proposed to define the relationship between crimes and drug abuse: crime causes drug use, drug use causes crime, and drug use and crime correlate the fact that they simultaneously occur, drug use and crime are a number of other variables caused and have a common cause. In practice, each of these models applicable in some cases and can be applied to certain subsets the group of drug-using offenders or to certain types of drug offenses apply (La Rosa, 1990).

Models to Study Relationship between Crimes and Drug Abuse

Goldstein Model

More and more often in the context of empirical studies, framework for the relationship between drugs and crime proposed by Goldstein tripartite conceptual is applied. In this model drugs lead crimes due to combination of psychopharmacological conditional, the economically related and the systemic model to violence (Goldstein, 1985). Although, this approach does not covers all possible links between drugs and crime, but it offers a useful conceptual framework for the analysis of drug-related crime. Subsequently, three theoretical models which have been first proposed by Goldstein to explain the relationship between drugs and crime are examined.

Subsequent Models

According to the first model, the crime is related to psychopharmacological effects of certain drugs, that is to say it is associated with intoxication by drugs that are known to cause impaired judgment, dwindling self-control, production paranoid ideation and/or distortion of perceptions and inhibitions. According to the second model, the economic-compulsive crime, the crime of drug aims to ...