this document delves into the reasonings why people take drugs and how this leads to them committing crime it also incudes information about drug seizures with lots of facts and statistics. includes an overview of the APA and how drug use leads to offending.
Most cocaine In England comes from south America.
What is an addiction= and illness that takes over your life as you become dependent on it
and can’t focus or do anything without the substance or thing that an individual is addicted
too.
No control over what you’re doing.
APA:
American
psychological
association
Addiction is a
complex condition
and a change in the
brains wiring that
cause people to
What is drug addiction: Why take drugs?
Not a crime to be a drug addict. Long history of human relationships
with addictive drugs.
drug seizures: Used to feel better and reduce
Cannabis is the most seized drug. stress.
Cocaine is the second most seized Could be peer-pressured into taking
drug. them.
153,135 drug seizures in England and Drugs have been used by priests in
Wales. religious ceremonies and healers
Aofdrug- maximum penalty is 7 years have use them for medical purposes.
Theories addiction:
for possession and life for supply. Why does drug use lead to offending?
Neuroscientific
B drug- maximummodels of addiction.
penalty is 5 years
Behavioural models.
for possession and 14 years for People need money.
Cognitive
supply. models. Get violent.
C drug- maximum penalty is 2 years Draws you into the wrong crowd.
for possession and 14 years for Easy access to it.
supply. Forward causation: drug use causes
crime through the need to fund drug
use through economic necessity or
because of psychopharmacological
changes precipitates by drugs.
Reverse causation: involvement with
crime leads to drug use. Opportunity
for drug use increase with
involvement in criminal behaviour.
Confounding: crime and drug share a
common set of causes, there is no
direct causal relationship.
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