Drugs and Crime

Bean, Philip

doi:10.4324/9780203077146

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“…Substance use, more severe psychopathology, homelessness, and engagement in criminal activity may decrease patients' ability to accurately identify, evaluate, and avoid or cope with potentially dangerous situations (Maniglio, 2009). For instance, patients who are intoxicated by alcohol or drugs are more likely to leave property unattended, are slower to react, and are less able to defend themselves, which makes them a suitable target for offenders (Bean, 2014;Traverso & Bagnoli, 2001). The high risk of victimization of patients with dual diagnosis might be due to the fact that a lot of risk factors for victimization are present in these patients.…”

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Prevalence of Victimization in Patients With Dual Diagnosis

Waal

Dekker

Goudriaan

2016

Journal of Dual Diagnosis

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Prevalence of Victimization in Patients With Dual Diagnosis

Waal

Dekker

Goudriaan

2016

Journal of Dual Diagnosis

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“…Thirdly, this study did not exhaust the wide range of factors that present an increased likelihood for burglary. For example, drug habits can potentially increase burglary motivation [8,[36][37][38] but they were not investigated here. In essence, it was not possible to model all factors that contribute to the development of burglary risk.…”

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“…It has also been proposed that certain urban land use features, such as commercial places and permeable roads (i.e., crime generators) attract large numbers of people for noble reasons, but nevertheless provide offending opportunities [2,8,10,19]. Many urban places also include crime attractors, such as drug markets, lending places, pawnbrokers, red-light districts that to lead to high crime concentrations because they host illegal activities and attract willing participants, with motivated offenders and vulnerable targets among these [8,10,[36][37][38].…”

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Modeling Spatial Interactions between Areas to Assess the Burglary Risk

Mburu

Bakillah

2016

IJGI

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It is generally acknowledged that the urban environment presents different types of risk factors, but how the structural effects of areas influence the risk levels in neighboring areas has been less widely investigated. This research assesses the local effects of burglary contributory factors on burglary over small areas in a large metropolitan region. A comparative framework is developed for analyzing the effects of geographic dependence on burglary rates, and for assessing how such dependence conditions the community context and the urban land use. A local indicators spatial autocorrelation analysis assesses burglaries over five years (2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) to identify risk clusters. Thereafter, effects of different variables (e.g., unemployment, building density) on burglary frequency are estimated in a series of regression models while controlling for changes in the risk levels of nearby surrounding areas. Results uncover strong evidence that the configuration of the surroundings influences risk. After controlling for area-based interaction, patterns are identified that contrast with the previous literature, such as lower burglary frequency in areas with higher tenancy in social housing units. Together the findings demonstrate that the spatial arrangement of areas is as crucial as contextual crime factors, particularly when assessing the risk for small areas.

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“…While this appears commonsensical, not everyone fully agrees. Stated differently, the relationship between drug use, addiction, and crime is well documented in the criminological literature, but some scholars and drug experts warn that a linear relationship may not exist (see Inciardi, 1981;McBride and McCoy, 2003;Bean, 2014;Schram and Tibbetts, 2014). Notwithstanding, communities that have a drug presence are typically places where one finds a high crime rate that includes: robberies, violent shootings, burglaries, deaths, and accidental overdoses.…”

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Opioid Addiction in Rural North Carolina: A Criminal Justice and Public Health Issue

Anderson¹,

Reinsmith‐Jones²

2017

IJSSS

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Opioid addiction and abuse has become a nationwide epidemic in America. Chief among the states where this behavior is most pervasive is North Carolina. Current statistics reveal that not only are addiction, abuse, and untimely deaths owing to overdose (especially from heroin use) are found in urban areas, but these behaviors are also pervasive in rural areas of the state where health experts and criminal justice officials struggle with the challenges of addressing public health and criminal justice consequences that come with drug addiction and abuse such as treatment, prevention, and punishments, respectively. Unlike urban areas that often have adequate resources to address these concerns, this is not the case in rural areas that struggle with more addicts and offenders than resources to manage this current crisis. Because of the complexity of the opioid crisis and many of the past lessons learned from the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, we believe that society can more effectively address the new opioid epidemic by relying on both criminal justice as well as public health strategies.

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Drugs and Crime

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Prevalence of Victimization in Patients With Dual Diagnosis

Prevalence of Victimization in Patients With Dual Diagnosis

Modeling Spatial Interactions between Areas to Assess the Burglary Risk

Opioid Addiction in Rural North Carolina: A Criminal Justice and Public Health Issue

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