Drug Trafficking Sociology
Illegal drugs in the United States has created a huge black market industry. According to the International Business Times (2013), an estimated $200-$750 billion a year in size, with the current decade seeing the largest per person drug usage per year in American history ("Drug Trafficking by the Numbers," n.d.). Drug trafficking involves the trade of illegal drugs through a well-structured network and imported and exported to different corners of the world. According to a report by United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), the major illicit drugs that are being produced and traded are cocaine, opium, cannabis and heroin ("Drug Trafficking" n.d.). UNDOC’s report suggests that the countries that are involved in the production and trafficking
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The reoccurring theme in this school was that human behavior is developed and changed by the social and physical environment of that person (Williams & McShane, 2014, p.46). The primary methods of study was official data and life history. Official data applied factors such as crime, poverty, and truancy. As for life history, observations are made analyzing how the socio-ecological process happens naturally among the various characters in their environment. With the observations made through the case studies by sociologists and psychologists of the time, they are able to produce data to show how the characters in the area correlate to certain factors in a given area. These things would help in the development of urbanization.
In a study conducted by the National Institute of Health, drug trafficking fosters social disorganization by the fact that quantitative investigations at the city level found that an association between drug activity and violent crime remains after controlling for other factors such as poverty, unemployment, and family disruption. Minority communities display higher levels of violence, and are more likely to have drug markets than other areas in large U.S. cities, a result of the extreme socio-economic disadvantage of the urban …show more content…
Individuals conform to drug trafficking by buying into the idea of the opportunity of accumulating large amounts of money and gaining power within the culture, while accepting the fact that the business they are partaking in may result in incarceration or death. Drug traffickers epitomize innovation in the strain theory. With the lack of education and legitimate employment, individuals will turn to illegal means such as this to make income.
Developed by Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, the General Theory of Crime, better known as the Self-Control theory, is based on the lack of an individual’s self-control, which is the main factor behind criminal behavior or conformity. Self-control theory predominately highlights parental upbringing which suggests that individuals who were inadequately parented before the age of eight develop less self-control than persons of roughly the same age who had better parenting, even though others play a significant role in the process of proper or improper
The reoccurring theme in this school was that human behavior is developed and changed by the social and physical environment of that person (Williams & McShane, 2014, p.46). The primary methods of study was official data and life history. Official data applied factors such as crime, poverty, and truancy. As for life history, observations are made analyzing how the socio-ecological process happens naturally among the various characters in their environment. With the observations made through the case studies by sociologists and psychologists of the time, they are able to produce data to show how the characters in the area correlate to certain factors in a given area. These things would help in the development of urbanization.
In a study conducted by the National Institute of Health, drug trafficking fosters social disorganization by the fact that quantitative investigations at the city level found that an association between drug activity and violent crime remains after controlling for other factors such as poverty, unemployment, and family disruption. Minority communities display higher levels of violence, and are more likely to have drug markets than other areas in large U.S. cities, a result of the extreme socio-economic disadvantage of the urban …show more content…
Individuals conform to drug trafficking by buying into the idea of the opportunity of accumulating large amounts of money and gaining power within the culture, while accepting the fact that the business they are partaking in may result in incarceration or death. Drug traffickers epitomize innovation in the strain theory. With the lack of education and legitimate employment, individuals will turn to illegal means such as this to make income.
Developed by Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, the General Theory of Crime, better known as the Self-Control theory, is based on the lack of an individual’s self-control, which is the main factor behind criminal behavior or conformity. Self-control theory predominately highlights parental upbringing which suggests that individuals who were inadequately parented before the age of eight develop less self-control than persons of roughly the same age who had better parenting, even though others play a significant role in the process of proper or improper