Cheat Sheet - Drug Use & Crime

1. 1. 2. 3. **Moral panic**: Heightened widespread panic in the public that something is terribly wrong in society (Key facet: Sub population is responsible for this issue) - - - - - **Sensationalism**: Intention to cause intense reaction by using exaggerat...

1. 1. 2. 3. **Moral panic**: Heightened widespread panic in the public that something is terribly wrong in society (Key facet: Sub population is responsible for this issue) - - - - - **Sensationalism**: Intention to cause intense reaction by using exaggerated, fake, or lucid info **Normalization**: Refers to the use of illicit drugs being increasingly viewed by many people as similar to other accommodate deviant activities (Mostly applies to Cannabis) - The three schools of thought regarding the connection between marijuana and hard drug use. 1. - 2. - - - 3. - **Sequencing**: Has to be a fixed relationship between the two drugs; Use of marjuana has to be initiated first before the use of another hard drug **Association**: The initiation of marijuana increases the probability of using the secondary/hard drugs; More socially acceptable **Causality**: Marijauan must be the cause of the use of the hard drug. (One thing per certain) - Three models of the connection between drugs and crime. 1. 2. - 3. - **Criminogenic**: Crime causing or to cause crime - - Three models or explanations of the connection between drug use and violent crime (the drugs-violence nexus) 1. - - 2. - 3. - - Ways non-violent drug sellers settle disputes - - - - The three models of drug trafficking (PPT 10) 1. 2. 3. Types of drug trafficking networks (PPT 10) - - - - - - - The different types of retail level drug markets (PPT 10) 1. - - 2. - - - 3. 4. The four factors that facilitate the drug trade. - - - - **Myths about drug trafficking** (PPT 10) 1. - 2. 3. - -