Human Behavior in 'Crackhouse'

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In this essay, the writer examines Terry Williams' fine text, 'Crackhouse' and delineates the popular theories set forth to explain why people abuse and sell this destructive drug. The paper also examines which theory seems the most plausible in explaining the social scourge of drug abuse and will conclude with some basic recommendations that can both turn lives around and, in extreme case, save them.

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"Criminal causality theories abound in America as elsewhere. The following paper will review Terry Williams' excellent 1992 text, Crackhouse and assess which of the following theories - choice theory, social structure theory, social disorganization theory, social strain theory or cultural deviance theory - best explicate why Williams' characters act as they do. To do this most efficaciously, the paper will be broken into three parts. The first part will outline some basic theories that may be put forward as illuminating why people choose - or do not choose - this kind of behavior. The second section will introduce the theory that seems to offer the greatest insight into crack abuse and what can be done to treat it, if not eradicate it."

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