Criminal_Justice

Criminal Justice History: The history of drug related crime goes well back into the 1700\'s with England and the United States supplying Asia with opium. The introduction began a addiction among the Asian people and caused crime rates to go up for the money to get the finance for their new found addiction. The addiction that western civilization started back then still affects large amounts of Asia still today with the continued addiction to opiates amongst other new aged drugs as well. However the effects of drugs and the crime that it brings had not affected the United states for about another 50 to 100 years in the 1800\'s mainly with the rise of organized crime (mafia and other forms of gangs). As the use of drugs became more and more popular in the united states the rise of property and some violent crimes went up gradually until the 1970\'s there was a drastic increase with the introduction of LSD, Heroin, and Cocaine. Why do drugs lead to crime': One of the main reasons drugs lead to crime is the need for money to support their habit. People addicted to drugs resort to different types of crimes to get their money or their substance of drugs, crimes, drug, crime, women, commit, violent, related, money, person, gangs, think, problem, people, out, hispanic, because, another, one, normally, non-hispanic, males, likely, go, due, committed, cause, assault, under, times, support, robbery, reason, population, others