Drugs in Society

Lyman, Michael D.

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“…However, ineffective law enforcement affects preventing and controlling adolescent illicit drug involvement, such as marijuana cultivation, which often stems from police corruption and complicity. In settings where the police are highly corrupt, illicit marijuana cultivation and trafficking are rife [43]. Thus, in South Africa, where the police are corrupt and complicit in illegality [44,45], effective enforcement of policies or laws on illegal marijuana cultivation and trading could be hampered.…”

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Contextual influences of illicit adolescent marijuana cultivation and trading in the Inqguza Hill local municipality of South Africa: implications for public health policy

Manu

Douglas

Ntsaba

2021

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

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Background Although commercial cultivation and trading of marijuana, commonly known as cannabis or dagga in the South African context, remains an illicit practice, adolescents actively engage in it. However, contextual influences that sustain adolescent involvement in illicit marijuana-related activties remain empirically unascertained. Objective This study sought to ascertain the various contextual influences of adolescent illicit marijuana cultivation and trading in two communities in the Ingquza Hill Local Municipality (IHLM) of South Africa, using the tenets of the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM). Methods The study utilised focus group discussions approach to interview thirty-three purposefully sampled participants who were recruited through the snowball sampling technique. A semi-structured interview guide was used to conduct the interviews, while thematic content analysis was used to analyse the data. Results We found that illicit adolescent marijuana cultivation and trading was influenced by eleven contextual factors that are grouped under four levels of socio-ecological influence. These include intrapersonal influences (knowledge and skills in marijuana cultivation and courage), interpersonal influences (peer and family influences), communal level influences (economic reasons, early childhood exposure to marijuana activities, protection of family lands, the topography of the area and soil fertility) and policy-related influences (lack of communal bylaws on marijuana activities and laxity in law enforcement). Conclusion It is recommended that substance abuse prevention policies and programmes focus on discouraging children from engaging in illicit marijuana activities in IHLM across the four tenets of SEM and curtailing adolescent involvement in marijuana cultivation and trading. There is also the need to incorporate the law enforcement approach into demand reduction strategies of the National Drug Master Plan (NDMP), which employs only an educative approach in its current form. Working agreements between municipal authorities, law enforcement agents and social service professionals also need to be strengthened to push demand reduction strategies for marijuana in communities to protect the rights of children as enshrined in the Children’s Act, 38 of 2005.

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Contextual influences of illicit adolescent marijuana cultivation and trading in the Inqguza Hill local municipality of South Africa: implications for public health policy

Manu

Douglas

Ntsaba

2021

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

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“…However, more recent research has suggested that although this might be the causal link between substance use and offending for some, for others this might be an over-simplification. For example, many individuals may get drawn into dealing illicit drugs in order to fund a habit, rather than engaging in acquisitive crime (Lyman, 2013) and there may also be gender differences, with male substance-involved offenders being more likely to engage in drug dealing, and females more likely to be involved in prostitution to fund drug habits (Home Office, 2004b; Young et al , 2000).…”

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Using the “recovery” and “rehabilitation” paradigms to support desistance of substance-involved offenders: exploration of dual and multi-focus interventions

Elison¹,

Davies²,

Ward³

et al. 2016

JCRPP

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The links between substance use and offending are well evidenced in the literature, and increasingly, substance misuse recovery is being seen as a central component of the process of rehabilitation from offending, with substance use identified as a key criminogenic risk factor. In recent years, research has demonstrated the commonalities between recovery and rehabilitation, and the possible merits of providing interventions to substance-involved offenders that address both problematic sets of behaviours. This review paper therefore provides an overview of the links between substance use and offending, and the burgeoning literature around the parallel processes of recovery and rehabilitation. This is provided as a rationale for a new treatment approach for substance-involved offenders, Breaking Free Online (BFO), which has recently been provided as part of the Gateways throughcare pathfinder in a number of prisons in North-West England. The BFO programme contains specific behaviour change techniques (BCTs) that are generic enough to be applied to change a wide range of behaviours, and so is able to support substance-involved offenders to address their substance use and offending simultaneously. This dual and multi-target intervention approach has the potential to address multiple, associated areas of need simultaneously, streamlining services and providing more holistic support for individuals, such as substance-involved offenders, who may have multiple and complex needs. Recommendations are provided to other intervention developers who may wish to further contribute to widening access to such dual-focus programmes for substance-involved offenders, based on the experiences developing and evidencing the BFO programme.

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Organized Crime

Dolliver¹

2015

The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment

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This entry examines various aspects of “organized crime” by detailing characteristics common to larger and smaller criminal organizations, as well as inspecting inconsistencies in legal definitions between nations and international governing bodies regarding this elusive concept. A historic review of social and legal atmospheres surrounding organized crime in the United States is presented, in addition to detailed descriptions of various forms of organized crime presently operating in the United States and abroad. An overview of legal approaches to organized crime from an international perspective is then given, followed by a brief review of the most common activities in which organized crime groups are involved worldwide. Finally, related international geographical significances in patterns of organized crime activity are considered.

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Drugs in Society

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Contextual influences of illicit adolescent marijuana cultivation and trading in the Inqguza Hill local municipality of South Africa: implications for public health policy

Contextual influences of illicit adolescent marijuana cultivation and trading in the Inqguza Hill local municipality of South Africa: implications for public health policy

Using the “recovery” and “rehabilitation” paradigms to support desistance of substance-involved offenders: exploration of dual and multi-focus interventions

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