Chapter 5 Crime: Fear in the Streets. © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Seeking...

Chapter 5

Crime:

Fear in the Streets

© 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Seeking Security

• Some attempts at security bring smiles, many are deadly serious

• The problem with using a gun for deterrence is that often it is: – Only the criminal who has a weapon, and is

ready to use it when a crime occurs


Figure 5.1 Murders by Guns, Selected Countries, 2004


Street Crime and Youth Violence

• FIRE economy (finance, insurance, and real estate)– Leave many “burned” and excluded

• The changing economy has meant huge cultural and social dislocation

• Problems around the world

• Anomie


International Drug Trade

• Opium

• Cocaine– “crack”– Drug cartel

• Cannabis– Hemp; hashish; marijuana– Decriminalizing marijuana

International Drug Trade

– “gateway” drug– Tobacco; nicotine; peyote

• Alcoholism

• New Recipes: Chemical Agents– “designer” drugs– Methamphetamine– Bazooka



Figure 5.2 Global Opium Production 1990–2007


Figure 5.3 Potential Cocaine Production: Bolivia, Colombia, Peru*


Incarceration around the World

• In the 1980s, the U.S. rate of incarceration was third in the world:– Behind the Soviet Union and South Africa

• In the U.S., the prison population grew in the 1980s and 1990s as the crime rate fell– The single biggest factor behind this increase

has been drug sentencing


Figure 5.4 Rate of Incarceration in Selected Nations


International Crime Cartels; In Search of Opportunity and Order

• Trading in Guns, Drugs, and People– The U.S. has a long history of urban gangs– Drug trafficking, prostitution (including global

trafficking in women) – Extortion and kickbacks, and weapons

trafficking

• Mexico’s Drug Wars

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