Violent and Criminal Correlates of Drug Abuse

Violent and Criminal Correlates of Drug Abuse

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Violent and Criminal Correlates of Drug Abuse-Summary

The text in this chapter points out that people’s greatest concern about illegal drugs is their association with other forms of criminal behavior. Recently there have been growing allegations concerning the relationship between crime and illicit drug use. The broad theoretical connections between crime and drug use are that drug causes crime, crime causes drug use and subcultural explanations. For a long time, drugs have been linked to crime and violence in the mind of the public. Additionally, politicians have…