CRM 3314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychopharmacology, Functional Response, The Good Life

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3314
• Professor: Kate Fletcher

Document Summary

Drugs are changed in form for people to administer themselves differently, to get different experiences: not something widespread in society, but there are episodic binges. The psychopharmacological effects of the drug, the effects it has on people leads them to be violent, enraged, crazy: economic compulsive. Is crime making and people need to commit crime to have the resources to get crack once they become addicted theft, property crime: systemic. Might be crime making because violence and crime is something one has to resort to when one is operating on the black market. The very fact that the drug is illegal, means that people have to engage in illegal activities when doing thing associated with the drug. If you are a dealer there is no way to resolve disputes in legal ways. There is going to be systemic reasons that crime and violence occur when dealing with activities in the black market.