Crack Cocaine Addiction and Theft of Property

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This paper discusses the issue of drug addiction and crime, with particular reference to crack cocaine addiction and property theft. It discusses these issues with reference to previously published literature in the form of reviews of the research conducted on this issue. The paper finds that there is a complicated link between drug use and crime, with no directly discernible causative link between the two, i.e., drug use does not necessarily lead to crime, just as crime does not necessarily lead to drug use. The paper ends by looking at various recommendations.

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"Illicit drug use is widespread in the young adult population; there are, for example, around four million regular illicit drug users in Great Britain (Hough et al., 2000). The most commonly used illicit drugs are cannabis and ecstasy; large minorities of the teenage and young adult population also admit to other forms of offending, though only a very small proportion are persistent or serious offenders (Hough et al., 2000). Those who use illicit drugs are more likely than others to be involved to some degree in crime, and vice versa, however, in general there is no significant causal link between use of either cannabis or ecstasy and property crime (Hough et al., 2000)."

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