Addiction and Crime Flashcards
ABC
Affect, Behaviour, Cognitions
Affect
emotion
Behaviour
Actions
Cognitions
thinking
Definition of addiction, national institute on Drug Abuse
chronic, relapsing brain disease
National institute on drug abuse characeterizes:
1) complusive drug seeking and use
2) despite harmful consequences
-> dependence and withdrawal are not there
Definitions of Substance Abuse, World Health Organization
harmful or hazordous use of psychoactive substances
world health organization, dependance sydrome
1) strong desire to take the drug
2) difficulties in controlling its use, bender
3) persisting in use despite harmful consequences
4) higher priority to drug use than other activities, obligations
5) increased tolerance
6) withdrawal syndrome
World Health organization, america psychiatric association
10 serparate substance use disorder categories -> disorder related to alcohol, cannabis, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, sedatives, stimulants, tobacco and other (unknown)
- severity (mild, moderate, severe)
American Psychriatric Association, clusters
of cognitive, behavioural and physiological
American Psychriatric Association, clusters of cognitive, behavioural and physiological
- impaired control -> taking more, greater time doing the drug
- social impairment
- risky use -> taking it in a bad places
- pharmacological criteria -> tolerance and withdrawal
Substance abuse is a …. risk factor for offending
moderate, if get treated then less likely to reoffend
substance abuse and offending, additional considerations
1) nature of the drug
2) type of crime
3) presence and absence of additional criminal risk factors
crime is socially constructed
- social mechanism, phenomenon, category created by society
- perception of individual, group, idea created through social practice
- subject to change -> depends what people are in power, revolving door
- basely an agreement in sociality for what is legal
- created through conflict or consensus
criminal behaviour involves:
- variety of definitions and explainations that are socially agreed upon
- eg: motivation, opportunity, politics, convention, context (situation)
- have to have some sort of intent, what is the primary cause (are they at fault)
definitions of crime, legal
acts prohitibed by the state and punishable under the law
definition of crime, moral
violations of norms of religion and morality
definitions of crime, social
violation of certain norms and customs that are punishable by the community
definitions of crime, psychological
acts that are rewarding to the perpetrator but harmful to others
critical role of definitions
- cultural factors
- changing norms of a society
- determination of prevalence rates
- proper responses
According to Bartol&Bartol, criminal behaviour
- refers to intentional behaviour tht violates a criminal code
-intentional in that it did not occur accidentally or without justification - reference to the legal definitions
- addresses the criminal responsibility of the offender
Why do we care?
1) prevalence of crime
2) victimization
3) cost of crime
Prevalence of crime
- proporation of a population found to be involved in crime
- historically (ever in their lifetime)
- currently (in past year)
- individual -> repeat offenders
Victiminzation
refers to those affected by crime, can affect public concern
cost of crime
- can be difficult to calculate
- direct costs or indirect costs
Direct costs
police, courts, corrections
Indirect costs
secondary effects, long term effects, public policy concern
Goldstein’s tripartite model
1) systemic crime
2) economic compulsive crime
3) psychopharmacological crime
Systemic crime
- a form of drug-related that occurs because the drug trade is illegal and its participants cannot turn to authorities for assistance
- to enforce -> murder, hurt
- third party crime -> cartels may do weapon laundering, prostitutions
- tend to engage in multiple crimes
- narco-terrorism -> terrorize a company to get what they want
Economic compulsive crime
- a form of drug-related crime that occurs as a results of drug users engaging in illegal behaviour as a means to support their drug habit
- if they did not have to support drug use then would not do crimes
Psychopharmacological crime
- a form of drug crime that occurs as a result of the acute and chronic effects
- stimulants -> lead to impulsivity -> leads to commit crimes
What are the different sides in the “drug war”
decriminalization, legalization (let people do what they want), users, community members, police, medical professionals
what are come common goals on both sides of the drug wars
still want to prevent death from overdose, want to reduce underworld drug dealers, death, disease
- want to mimize harmful effects
- want to reduce tax payer money
what does Boyce have to say about labels?
carry stigma -> lessen
create a hierarchy
Priming and Moral judgement conclusions
- literature on priming is mixed
- demonstrates the brief presentations on change attitudes
- provides support for link between health-conscious messages and moral judgements (eg bias against unhealthy judgements)
- research has implication on benefits of HRS
- educational presentations significantly shifted attitudes as they were more negative after the healthy living presentation educational condition
what are drugs of abuse
- harmful use and will use it despite consequences
- interact with the mesolimbicdopamergic system (MDS) -> through it off balance
instrumental
obtain some sort of goal
reactive
to inflict intentional pain and harm
before 20th legal issues
few legal restrictions, often in commercial products
early 1990s, 1908 and 1920-30 legal issues
1908 -> opium act
1920-1930 -> prohibition on alcohol
mid 1990s legal issues
narcotic control act
late 1990 legal issues
controlled drugs and substance act
early 2000 legal issues
cannabis act 2018 to amend CDSA
Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Survey (CTADS)
- an ongoing general survey, sponsored by Health Canada
- the survey used a random telephone survey format
- provides an understanding of drug use pattern and related problems that exist
- examples -> most used -> alcohol
what “problems” are associated with psychoactive drugs
- homelessness -> may lead to doing other crimes in order to get money (economic compulsive crime)
- have a lot of health problems (STD) -> drugs mask pain from cancer
Historical Overview
- drug use dates back thousands of years
- relatively few restrictions on drug availability or drugs use prior to 20th century, until evidence of addictive properties emerged
- by 1890d, medical practitioners began calling attention to social problems resulting from uncontrolled access to psychoactive drugs
- this marked the era of patent medicines (eg: opium, morphine and cocaine)
- widespread use of opiods
- late 1880s -> calling more attention to social problems because how easy they were to get
- medical and recreational use will be closely connected
legislation -> development of drug laws
- how society establishes formal guidelines for drug use
- both federal and provincial regulations established in 1908 -> opioid was targets (part due to the amount of Chinese immigrants
opium act of 1908
first prohibitionist drug policy in Canada
1911 drug legislation
the opium and other drugs act was enacted to permit harsher penalties
- this act remained the primary legislation, with few changes taking place prior to the late 1950
1920 drug legislation
drug and food act -> establishes requirements for labelling drugs
1923 drug legislation
regulation of marjunia was added
1929 drug legislation
opuimon narcotic drug act
1955 drug legislation
senate social committee addressing drug use -> recommended the elimination of addict, on the traffic of narcotic drugs in Canada
Narcotic Control Act of 1961
- based on senate special committee (1955) addressing drug use and recommended:
- elimination of addicts
- the suppression of narcotic traffic
- the prevention of an increase in the addict population
The Le Dain Commission
- formed to address criminal penalties
- concern grew after world war 2 with introduction of international human rights
- pressure groups disputed use of criminal law as solution to responding to drug problems
- needed to have more a ecumenic and medical solution than criminal solution - despite these recommendations, Canada;s drug policy remained unchanged
controlled drugs and substances act (CDSA) of 1997
- replaced the Narcotic Control Act of 1961
- CDSA prohibits -> importation, exportation, production, sale, provision, and possession of various controlled drugs and substances
- medical treatment may be legally contained with a medial profession prescription
the CDSA consists of:
- drug schedules that detail the types of controlled drugs and substance
- in each schedule, the offence and punishment