In Siegel’s Criminology: The Core, he highlights the different types of drug control strategies such as source control, interdiction, law enforcement, punishment, community programs, drug education, drug testing, treatment, employment, and legalization. Source control is the approach to “deter the sale and importation of drugs through systematic apprehension of large-volume drug dealers, coupled with the enforcement of strict drug laws that carry heavy penalties” (Siegel: 2015, 378). The main goal of this approach is to capture and punish know international drug dealers and to prevent others from entering in the drug trade by cutting off and destroying oversea crops as well as arresting individuals who are involved with the drug cartel (Siegel:2105,
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The problems with this strategy is that US borders are hard to control and even if they were homegrown and laboratory made drugs would become drugs of choice due to the access and costs (Siegel: 2015, 379).
The drug control strategies of law enforcement include investigations and arrests of drug dealers that aim to reduce consumption and crime rates. Some examples would include undercover operations or drug sweeps in hopes to discourage dealers and users, but these also influence new dealers to be recruited by replacing those in prison …show more content…
The concerns with this strategy is that there are ways to alter or cheat on drug-test that prove they are ineffective (Siegel: 2015, 385). Rather than trying to deter behaviors involved with drugs there are also treatment strategies that aim at helping substance abusers ‘go straight’ and rid themselves of drugs. The concerns with treatment strategies is that they are expensive, require actual motivation from the abuser, and clients are associated with other abusers which can affect the treatment methods regardless (Siegel: 2015, 385). Another thing is the abuser has to be willing to partake in treatment strategies and have the ambition to improve their-self and no longer take drugs. There are also drug control strategies aimed employment that provide jobs as alternatives for drugs to abusers (Siegel: 2015, 385). Often we see that individuals may become abusers because they are not qualified for jobs and either result in distributing or abusing themselves. The problems with employment as a control strategy is that it requires former addicts to give up their addictions in order to partake in steady employment (Siegel:2015,
The problems with this strategy is that US borders are hard to control and even if they were homegrown and laboratory made drugs would become drugs of choice due to the access and costs (Siegel: 2015, 379).
The drug control strategies of law enforcement include investigations and arrests of drug dealers that aim to reduce consumption and crime rates. Some examples would include undercover operations or drug sweeps in hopes to discourage dealers and users, but these also influence new dealers to be recruited by replacing those in prison …show more content…
The concerns with this strategy is that there are ways to alter or cheat on drug-test that prove they are ineffective (Siegel: 2015, 385). Rather than trying to deter behaviors involved with drugs there are also treatment strategies that aim at helping substance abusers ‘go straight’ and rid themselves of drugs. The concerns with treatment strategies is that they are expensive, require actual motivation from the abuser, and clients are associated with other abusers which can affect the treatment methods regardless (Siegel: 2015, 385). Another thing is the abuser has to be willing to partake in treatment strategies and have the ambition to improve their-self and no longer take drugs. There are also drug control strategies aimed employment that provide jobs as alternatives for drugs to abusers (Siegel: 2015, 385). Often we see that individuals may become abusers because they are not qualified for jobs and either result in distributing or abusing themselves. The problems with employment as a control strategy is that it requires former addicts to give up their addictions in order to partake in steady employment (Siegel:2015,