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week 11 Discussion drugs and society

week 11 Discussion drugs and society

Q Drug use and crime and violence are very strongly related to one another. But do the direct pharmacological effects of drugs cause criminal and violent behavior, as many observers have argued for more than a century? Or is the link more indirect, mediated by the influence of some third or fourth factor or variable?

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According to Goldstein, the drug and crime connection are divided into three models- the economic compulsive which means the crime that is getting money to support drug use (Bennett & Holloway, 2009). Psychopharmacological which means the drug effects resulting in any kind of change or impairment within the cognitive functioning that tends to precipitate the criminal behavior. Lastly, systemic which means the crime occurs as part of the system of drug distribution and use.