Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the past thirty years and policy makers try to implement law in other to reduce its growth. But doing so, it seems to interfere with other existing issue such as drug use. Therefore, crime and drug appear to be two sides of the same coins and the dilemma here is how to be cautious in decision taking toward one issue and avoiding side effects on the other side. The relationship between drug use and criminal behavior has been of primary interest to researchers and practitioners for most of this century. According to the preexisting research’s, drugs are related to crime in multiple ways. The existing relationship between drugs and crime appeared on the effects that they have on the user’s
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In his article “Drugs and crime” highlighted that there was a strong association between drug use and street crime and that some research had shown that the use of certain kind of drug cause higher rate of crime possibility. He even went further and compared the crime rate during the period that addicts use the drug heavily and when they are abstinent. He found out that the crime rate is higher when drug is use heavily. This argument is very important to my research not only because it establish the connection between drug and crime, but also because it shows a cause and effect relationship between drug and crime in a way that the more easily the drug is reachable, more people will tend to consume it and the he more the crime rate will …show more content…
The good side is that I’m able to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative data to my research. I all a lot from the article found because I made my position about the issue even stronger. I found out that were a statistical overlap between drug and crime. Moreover drug users are in high proportion among the population of criminal. Therefore it will be a utopia to say that drug legalization won’t have severe consequences of the crime rate. There is simply no way you can make drug legal and expect crime to be reduced. There will still be crime because marijuana is an addictive substance. People will do whatever it takes to get it. It’s is obvious that the violence caused by drug use will not magically stop because the drugs are legal. In other word someone who buy drug legally is not likely to be less violent than someone who buy it illegally. The author Susan Neiberg Terkel agree on this argument by saying that drug legalization “cannot change human nature. It cannot improve the social conditions that compel people to engage in crime, nor can it stop people from using drugs as an excuse to be violent.” My point of view is that drugs, legal or not, often lead to violence and therefore crime. Another author even go further by linking violence to drug user’s nature. Erich Goodewrites: “It is extremely unlikely that legalization will transform the violent
In his article “Drugs and crime” highlighted that there was a strong association between drug use and street crime and that some research had shown that the use of certain kind of drug cause higher rate of crime possibility. He even went further and compared the crime rate during the period that addicts use the drug heavily and when they are abstinent. He found out that the crime rate is higher when drug is use heavily. This argument is very important to my research not only because it establish the connection between drug and crime, but also because it shows a cause and effect relationship between drug and crime in a way that the more easily the drug is reachable, more people will tend to consume it and the he more the crime rate will …show more content…
The good side is that I’m able to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative data to my research. I all a lot from the article found because I made my position about the issue even stronger. I found out that were a statistical overlap between drug and crime. Moreover drug users are in high proportion among the population of criminal. Therefore it will be a utopia to say that drug legalization won’t have severe consequences of the crime rate. There is simply no way you can make drug legal and expect crime to be reduced. There will still be crime because marijuana is an addictive substance. People will do whatever it takes to get it. It’s is obvious that the violence caused by drug use will not magically stop because the drugs are legal. In other word someone who buy drug legally is not likely to be less violent than someone who buy it illegally. The author Susan Neiberg Terkel agree on this argument by saying that drug legalization “cannot change human nature. It cannot improve the social conditions that compel people to engage in crime, nor can it stop people from using drugs as an excuse to be violent.” My point of view is that drugs, legal or not, often lead to violence and therefore crime. Another author even go further by linking violence to drug user’s nature. Erich Goodewrites: “It is extremely unlikely that legalization will transform the violent