Forensic Psychology For Dummies by Canter David

Author:Canter, David [Canter, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012-04-03T06:00:00+00:00

Disrupting criminal careers

One approach of crime prevention is to work directly with offenders and diminish the likelihood of them committing further crimes, or at least reduce the prevalence of their offending. For much more on the various programmes in place, especially for violent offenders and those who’ve committed sex crimes, check out the chapters in Part V.

Addressing some of the background contributions to an individual committing criminality can help to reduce or even prevent crime. One obvious example is drug abuse. The expensiveness of high levels of illegal drug use, as well as the way buying and selling these drugs becomes part of criminal activities, doubtless fosters many forms of theft as well as violence. Whether drug addiction itself causes crime is open to debate, but I’ve certainly spoken to criminals who say that they didn’t use illegal drugs until they became involved in property crime that gave them the money to buy the drugs, or were introduced to substance abuse through their association with other criminals.

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