There are many weaknesses evident in both classical and strain theory that limit their effectiveness to explain the crime problem of drug trafficking. In regards to classical theory, it limits its ability to explain drug trafficking because it only focuses on the criminal act and not the offender. This is a weakness because it disregards any personal circumstances that can explain why they committed the crime that isn’t associated with rational choice or free will (e.g. severely needed the money to feed their family) (White, Haines and Asquith, 2012, p37-38; Burke, 2014, p40). This weakness is odd given that the major classical theorist’s aim was to produce a system that was equally fair amongst all individuals but that very theory is causing
