Modeling Drugs & Crime Deck (E3)

Question 1

This is a very early drug-crime model stating that addiction is a path that leads directly to crime (i.e., the addiction to crime pipeline) because addicts will have to commit dire acts to feed their addiction.

Answer 1

What is the enslavement model?

Question 2

What are the 2 very blunt assumptions that the enslavement model makes?

Answer 2

1) All addicts are too poor to fund their addiction
2) All addicts will have to commit crime to get their fix

Question 3

This drug-crime model states that drug use and crime are similar symptoms of some other underlying ailment.

Answer 3

What is the predisposition model?

Question 4

This modern drug-crime model states that drug use drives crime, such that increasing your drug use can also increase the likelihood that you will engage in crime.

Answer 4

What is the intensification model?

Question 5

This drug-violence model states that certain drugs either increase the likelihood of violent behavior or produce circumstances encouraging violent behavior.

Answer 5

What is the psychopharmacological model?

Question 6

This drug-violence model states that drug users commit petty crimes for money but that these crimes can escalate to violent crimes, given the circumstances.

Answer 6

What is the economic-compulsive model?

Question 7

This drug-violence model is the golden standard, stating that every aspect of the illegal drug trade has a high risk of violence.

Answer 7

What is the systemic model?

Question 8

What is the primary reason that the drug trade has such a high risk of violence according to the systemic drug-violence model?

Answer 8

Competition and disputes are not regulated by civil or criminal law

Question 9

This biological theory (criminology) asks if there is a gene that physically manifests as criminal behavior.

Answer 9

What is genetics?

Question 10

This biological theory (criminology) states that drug users are substituting some neurological deficiencies with drugs.

Answer 10

What is metabolic imbalance?

Question 11

This psychological theory (criminology) utilizes operant conditioning.

Answer 11

What is reinforcement?

Question 12

What is the basic principle behind operant conditioning?

Answer 12

Good behavior is rewarded, and bad behavior is punished

Question 13

How does operant conditioning apply to drug addiction?

Answer 13

Doing drugs rewards the user with a high, but not having access to drugs results in withdrawals (punishment)

Question 14

This psychological theory (criminology) states that risk-seeking behaviors and low self-esteem (unrelated to peer pressure) are factors for potential drug use.

Answer 14

What is personality?