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In a publicised home office research, 85% of offenders say that they have recently used drugs. What is the connection between drugs and crime? If drugs use is reduced, will the crime rate go down?
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In a publicised home office research, 85% of offenders say that they have recently used drugs. What is the connection between drugs and crime? If drugs use is reduced, will the crime rate go down? Drugs are related to crime in multiple ways. Most directly, it is a crime to use, possess, manufacture, or distribute drugs classified as having a potential for abuse. Drugs are also related to crime through the effects they have on the user's behaviour and by generating violence and other illegal activity in connection with drug trafficking. Many police forces estimate that around half of all recorded crime has some drug related element to it, whether in terms of individual consumption or supply of drugs, or the consequent impact of it on criminal behaviour. Technically 'a drug is and substance which modifies the functions of an organism'. Alcohol and heroin are both considered depressants, whereas caffeine, tobacco and...
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