Drug offences

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Drug offences

Drug offenses are the crime of the illegal manufacture, possession, use of or trade in (in particular recreational) drugs.

Description

Drug offences, although illegal, are in itself often not a major problem for society. Its spin-off effects (as mentioned under #impacts) in contract, are.

Attributing circumstances

Impacts

Spin-off problems associated with drugs include:

  • traffic congestion (due to roadside trading),
  • noise (from traffic and people),
  • disorderly conduct,
  • begging,
  • loitering,
  • vandalism,
  • littering (discarded drug paraphernalia),
  • criminal damage to property,
  • prostitution,[1]
  • robbery,
  • residential and commercial burglary,
  • theft from motor vehicles,
  • fencing stolen goods,
  • weapons offenses, and
  • assault and homicide.

Measures

Footnotes and references

  1. The links between sex and drug markets have been well-documented. May et al. (1999) [text] [Note]found that the majority of the sex-workers they interviewed were drug-dependent. See also the POP Guide on Street Prostitution. [text]

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