Question 1

What theories or models best explain the relationship between alcohol and violence?

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Question 2

Drug researchers have proposed three models of the connection or link between drug use and criminal behavior.What are they,how are they different,and which one seems to be most adequate in explaining this connection?

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Question 3

How have the explanations by drug researchers concerning the relationship between heroin addiction and violence evolved over time? What was the previous model and what is the current model? Why have these models changed?

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Question 4

Why do criminologists believe that there's a connection between being the perpetrator of a crime and being the victim of crime? What do they mean when they say that many of the dynamics that cause one also cause the other? Does this make sense? Explain.

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Question 5

The early studies of narcotic addiction that put forward the validity the enslavement or economic-compulsive model argued for a particular change in the drug law.What was this change that they proposed,why did they see it as a conclusion of their research,and what political consequences did their arguments have? Which well-known sociologists were associated with this position?

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Question 6

Drug researchers have proposed three models of the nexus between drug use and violent behavior.What are they and which seems most adequate today?

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Question 7

What evidence suggests the limitations of the economic-compulsive or enslavement model and the predisposition models of the drugs-crime connection? Why is the intensification model a more adequate explanation for this connection?

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Question 8

During the 1990s,the crime rate in the U.S.declined sharply and precipitously.Do you think that changes in rates of drug use and abuse play any role in this decline? Explain.

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Question 9

Do surveys (such as MTF and NSDUH)that ask questions about drug use and crime verify other sources of information on the drugs-crime nexus,such as arrest data and surveys on drug-abusing or criminal sectors of the population? Be detailed and specific.

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