An exploratory framework of drug related crime in forensic sciences and criminology
Inevitably, drug and crime are correlated as a global contributor to the social problems. According to World Drug Report (2015) of the United Nations Office on Drug and Crimes (UNODC), a total of 246 million people or 1 out of 20 people between the ages of 15 and 64 years, uses illegal drugs. Gold...
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| Language: | English |
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Malaysian Society of Applied Biology
2016
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11818/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11818/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11818/1/45_02_14.pdf |
| Summary: | Inevitably, drug and crime are correlated as a global contributor to the social problems. According to World Drug Report
(2015) of the United Nations Office on Drug and Crimes (UNODC), a total of 246 million people or 1 out of 20 people
between the ages of 15 and 64 years, uses illegal drugs. Goldstein’s (1985) conceptual analysis offered a tripartite classification
of drugs violence connections. Goldstein’s frameworks detailed on a psycho-social opportunity of drug users to commit a
crime which focuses on a psychopharmacological link, compulsive economic link and systemic link. The research objective
was to identify drug related crimes in forensic sciences and criminology that may be essential for relative developmental
framework. Results identified on major illegal drugs in relation to violence were cocaine, phencyclidine, lysergic acid
diethylamide, methamphetamine, ecstasy, heroin, marijuana, etc. The crimes most often committed by illegal drug users were
theft, burglary, robbery, prostitution, assault, rape etc. This framework cleared the importance of drug related crime. There is
a need for concrete developmental agenda, integrated responses and health intervention scheme besides the law for prevention
of drug related crime. |
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