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Running Head: DRUG AND CRIME

Drug and Crime
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1. Explain the three hypotheses regarding the relationship between drug use and the causes of
drugs related crime.
According to Levinthal (2012), the hypotheses about drugs and crime refers to a
tentative generalization, or speculations, whose validity remains untested. The association
between drug and crime is complicated. The complexity arises because some scholars argue
that the use of drugs, leads to an increase in criminal cases, due to a specific set of conditions.
Other scholars hypothesize that criminal involvement facilitates the use of drugs.
The two hypotheses which include the use of drugs leads to an increase in criminal
cases, and criminal involvement facilitates the use of drugs, falls under unidirectional
interpretations of drug and crime relationship, where drug abuse is viewed as a significant
cause of crime, and crime as a primary cause of drug abuse. The hypotheses that drug causes
crime, can be realized through the direct effect of a specific chemical substance, or on an
individual’s ability to inhibit a violent impulse. The third hypotheses about the link between
drug use and the causes of drugs related crime are that both drugs and crime which are
interdependent variables, enjoys a reciprocal relationship, that is the impacts of drugs use and
crime, and impact of crime on drugs. The reciprocal relationship is based on a bidirectional
link, rather than unidirectional. However, despite various scholars’ attempts to develop
numerous hypotheses about drug and crime, only one hypothesis, that is the use of drugs
leads to crime, has withstood the test of time, and received support from most scholars and
researchers. The direct effect of drug abuse on crime, is conceivable that drug trade caused
crime due to the violence associated with the drug business (Nordstrom & Dackis, 2011).

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2. Define the three major types of drug-related violence i...


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