Crimes of Intoxication

Question 2

Three main types of drug crime

Answer 2

1. Substance or drug refined crimes. The drug is literally the crime.
2. Substance or drug influence crime.
3. Substance or drug related crime.

Question 3

NZ Police

Answer 3

Alcohol is the most common recreational drug in NZ

Question 4

Statistic

Answer 4

Are we looking for correlation or causation?

Question 5

Neo - Classical Approaches

Answer 5

Routine Activities Theory: Motivated Offenders, Attractive Targets etc.

Question 6

The Intoxication/ Crime Link

Answer 6

Do drugs cause crime and does alcohol cause violence?

Question 7

Broad Sociological Theory

Answer 7

Adolescent violence and illicit substance use have the same risk and protective factors.

Question 8

Life Course Theory

Answer 8

Young men most likely to binge drink, and to be aggressive.

Question 9

Differential Association

Answer 9

Young people tend to drink obsessively in peer groups, personal groups.

Question 10

Social Bonding

Answer 10

Young people that drink obsessively, are not as connected to their family, to adults in their lives.

Question 11

Neutralisation and Drift

Answer 11

Young people are socially conformant, “it doesn’t hurt anyone” etc.

Question 12

Social Disorganisation

Answer 12

Community disorganisation definitely impacts the drinking on young people.

Question 13

Strain/Subcultural

Answer 13

The feeling of transient make us way less reckless.