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

Attributing circumstances

Impacts

Spin-off problems associated with drugs include:

  • traffic congestion,
  • noise (from traffic and people),
  • disorderly conduct,
  • begging,
  • loitering,
  • vandalism,
  • littering (discarded drug paraphernalia),
  • criminal damage to property,
  • prostitution,[1]

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  • 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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