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Drug Use
Crime has become a very contentious issue of late, due in part to worldwide economic turmoil. Individual are now without employment or a stable source of income. Wages are dropping, deficits are increasing, and individuals are without work. As a result of these disparities, crime rates tend to rise as individuals justify such behavior within themselves. This is particularly true of individuals with recurring credit problems, mortgages due, or in the worst instances, families. These individuals, although they don't have a stable source of income, must still pay its debtors or creditors. As such, crime tends to rise during periods of economic or social unrest (Hugo, 1987). A broad view of the world provides a great application of this theory in a practical sense. Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans. In many instances, individuals stole television, electronics, and other valuables from neighbor's homes. Police, in one incident beat an innocent 64-year-old man (Flaherty, 2007). Keith Griffin, a New Orleans police officer was booked with aggravated rate and kidnapping. In France, as the financial crisis grips all of Europe, unemployment is nearly 24% as the nation deals with austerity measures. All of these incidents lead to crime in some form irrespective of the individual (Gardner, 1978). Crimes,...
Below is a chart reinforcing my theory. Notice how crime and unemployment seem to mirror each other.
Drug use is no different in this regard. Much like unemployment and crime, there is a distinct correlation between drug use and crime. As such, it is my contention that drug use will have a profound impact on the future of America.
To begin, drug use is a very contentious issue in regards to criminal activity. There has not been a viable solution to many of the drug crimes plaguing civilized society. In some instances, many pundits have proposed legalizing drugs such as marijuana to help abate the influence of crime. I agree that legalizing drugs would reduce "criminal" behavior. This is due primarily to the fact that the use of drugs will no longer be "criminal" in a sense. Legalizing murder would reduce the "criminal" act of murder but would not reduce its incidence and subsequent cost to society in regards to ill will or negative sentiments. In fact the cost to society would be even larger in the murder example, as victim's family now has a legal ground to murder the original offender. As such a cycle, of devastating events will ensure. The same occurs with drug use, albeit on a minor scale.…
One example of the kind of policy change that is being suggested by some in the particular war on Meth is the reduction of the ability of meth makers, especially large scale makers to realize the supplies of a small number of raw materials used to make the drug pseudoephedrine is quaaludes, as this drug was successfully removed from the radar screen by the banning of the chemicals used
145)." When the drug impersonates the brain's natural stimuli, causing it to release dopamine, the brain - as is the case with methamphetamine use - will eventually recognize what is happening, in a sense, and will respond to the artificial stimuli by shutting down its dopamine releasing mechanisms (Ling, 2006, documentary film). The Grips of Addiction Like Mark's mice, the drug addict will always have a response to the precipitators in their
The third issue discussed is that of the juvenile justice systems. Most youth when convicted at a young age and put into these juvenile detentions enter a world that they rarely escape from. Once they go into this system, very rarely is there enough support to keep them out. In order to make these programs work, staff need to be better compensated, more professional mentors are needed to encourage youth
This would also serve to improve the relationship and the trust between the teachers, students and their parents. Bibliography OHSU, (Dec 2002), 'Pilot Study Reports High School Drug-Testing Program Dramatically Reduces Drug Use', Retrieved on February 23rd 2008, from, http://www.ohsu.edu/unparchive/2002/123002saturn.html Robert Taylor, (1997) 'Compensating Behavior and the Drug Testing of High School Athletes', CATO Journal, Retrieved on Feb 24th 2008, at http://web.psdomain.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/rstaylor/Drug%20Testing.pdf Jennifer Kern, Fatema Gunja, Alexandra Cox, Marsha Rosenbaum, Ph.D., Judith Appel, J.D.
Drug Trafficking The author of this report is to answer a few questions relating to drug trafficking. The primary focus of the questions and answers will be on two sources in particular, those being the movie Traffic and the class text authored by Thio, Calhoun and Conyers. The questions include references to the links between drugs and crime, the roles and events surrounding certain people in Traffic and so forth. There
Crime "Getting tough" on crime became a popular notion in 1970's America. Since that time, America has increasingly jailed/imprisoned offenders at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars. Though some people strongly believe in "getting tough," there are now serious questions about the cost effectiveness and wisdom of that harsh approach. Several experts believe that "getting tough" is not the answer and that a more scientific, comprehensive approach is