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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on April 1, 2009
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azp014
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The British Journal of Criminology 0:azp014 (2009)
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THE CAUSAL CONNECTION BETWEEN DRUG MISUSE AND CRIME

Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway*

* Professor Trevor Bennett, Director, Centre for Criminology, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, United Kingdom; thbennet{at}glam.ac.uk; Dr Katy Holloway, Reader in Criminology, Centre for Criminology, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, United Kingdom


  Abstract

One of the most influential accounts of the causal connection between drug use and crime was developed by Paul Goldstein in a tripartite conceptual framework that divided explanations of the connection into ‘economic-compulsive’, ‘psychopharmacological’ and ‘systemic’ (Goldstein 1985). The aim of this paper is to examine the validity of the taxonomy in explained drug-related crime across different crime types and to identify some of the mechanisms involved. This was done by interviewing drug-misusing offenders currently serving sentences of imprisonment in the United Kingdom about the role of drug use in their recent crimes. The paper concludes that Goldstein's taxonomy should be refined to take into account the wide range of factors that influence the connection between drug use and crime.


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