SOC229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Addiction
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Initial involvement in hldt (high level drug trafficking) Trafficking is influenced by your street connections. Learn the values (the norms, what to do/not to do), rationalization, m. o of trafficking. Unlike bank robbers, employed, middle class backgrounds, opportunity for money: only 8 of 70 reported financial loss. Compare selves to ie friends who are more successful and want the same without going about it the same way- illegitimate ways (they rationalize it) Not just about money, but as well to solve tension between expectations and means of achieving these. Agnew"s argument motivation: disparity between expectations & achievements, compare themselves to wealthy groups, greedy. Opportunity theory port of entry through employment eg. import/export companies (8/70) other areas: liquor establishments use shipments of product to traffic. Change/cognitive realization that they can move up: 5. Change in motivation ambitious, greedy, big-plaer : 7. Saving money need initial investment and back up money: 8.
