Exam 13: Trafficking in Illicit Drugs

During the 1990s,the crime rate in the U.S.declined sharply and precipitously.Do you think that changes in rates of drug use and abuse play any role in this decline? Explain.

Which of the following models most adequately explains the drugs/violence nexus?

The early studies of narcotic addiction that put forward the validity the enslavement or economic-compulsive model argued for a particular change in the drug law.What was this change that they proposed,why did they see it as a conclusion of their research,and what political consequences did their arguments have? Which well-known sociologists were associated with this position?

The relationship between alcohol consumption and criminal behavior is:

The use of certain drugs is more "criminogenic" than that of others,that is,it is more closely related to criminal behavior.Which of the following are the "big three" drugs with respect to the relationship between using psychoactive substances and committing crime?

What evidence suggests the limitations of the economic-compulsive or enslavement model and the predisposition models of the drugs-crime connection? Why is the intensification model a more adequate explanation for this connection?

During the past two decades,the price of cocaine sold on the street in the U.S.:

Which of the following drugs was the majority of perpetrators under the influence of when committing a criminal homicide?

Why do criminologists believe that there's a connection between being the perpetrator of a crime and being the victim of crime? What do they mean when they say that many of the dynamics that cause one also cause the other? Does this make sense? Explain.