CCJ 4934 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9: Drug User, Prohibition Of Drugs, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CCJ 4934
• Professor: Erika Brooke

Document Summary

Rates and patterns of drug use: the basics. Alcohol and cigarettes are used by a lot of people, more than illicit drugs added together. Marijuana is most used illicit drug, then cocaine. Heroin and crack, illicit, generate a lot of social and personal disruption including criminal behavior. Hassle factor" getting illegal drugs: can measure by comparing lifetime use with use in past month. If small circle, past month, is almost as proportionate as larger circle then drug has high continuance rate: can measure past year with past month. Consumption levels: can have a high prevalence rate but low consumption rate, how much of the drug is used is not the same as how many people use it. Trends over time: an introduction: need systematic data data gathered in a planned fashion, accurate, cross-sectional view of phenomenon in question. Alcohol consumption: 1790s-1919: can use sales to determine apparent" consumption, ways to measure alcohol.