Drugs_and_Crime

Drugs and Crime Use federal tax dollars to fund these therapeutic communities in prisons. I feel that if we teach these prisoners some self-control and alternative lifestyles that we can keep them from reentering the prisons once they get out. I am also going to describe some of today’s programs that have proven to be very effective. Gottfredson and Hirschi developed the general theory of crime. It According to their theory, the criminal act and the criminal offender are separate concepts. The criminal act is perceived as opportunity; illegal activities that people engage in when they perceive them to be advantageous. Crimes are committed when they promise rewards with minimum threat of pain or punishment. Crimes that provide easy, short-term gratification are often committed. The number of offenders may remain the same, while crime rates fluctuate due to the amount of opportunity (Siegel 1998). Criminal offenders are people that are predisposed to committing crimes. This does not mean that they have no choice in the matter, it only means that their self-control level is lower than average. When a person has limited self-control, they tend to be more impulsive and shortsighted. This ties back in with crimes that are committed that provide easy, treatment, drug, programs, therapeutic, program, community, people, pp, time, out, drugs, 1998, prisoners, prison, crimes, communities, work, should, self-control, opportunity, et, al, release, population, criminal, commit, abuse, about, while, study, states, prisons, prison-based, person, new, improved, expanded, effective, crime, cost, change, addiction, 1997, very, system, reform, recidivism, offenders, much, inciardi, general