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1/9/2023

SELLING/DISTRIBUTING NARCOTICS

Selling/distributing narcotics is a sort of crime that involves the illicit

manufacturing, transportation, and sale of substances that are subject to drug

prohibition legislation.

The worldwide hard drug market creates billions of dollars in unlawful

benefits for drug dealers, who frequently work in transnational lawbreaker

organizations or coordinated wrongdoing gatherings. Drug dealing is additionally

connected with different wrongdoings, for example, illegal tax avoidance,

debasement, brutality, and psychological warfare. (Cohen, Albert K 766-776 )

Social science is the process of human social way of the way we behave,

gather, and have social orders. Humanism can assist with making sense of why certain

individuals participate in selling/appropriating opiates, and what this kind of wrong

doing means for people and networks. A few humanistic speculations that can be

applied to this subject are:

Routine activity theory: proposes that wrongdoing occurs when three

elements come together: a stirred culpable individual, a justifiable purpose, and the

absence of an able watchman. According to this concept, selling/disseminating opiates

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may be explained by the existence of prescription customers who seek medications,

street pharmacists who provide drugs, and a lack of strong police social control that

can prevent or discourage drug exchanges.

Social disorganization theory: This hypothesis contends that wrongdoing is

bound to happen in regions that have low degrees of social attachment, social control,

and aggregate adequacy. As per this hypothesis, selling/disseminating opiates can be

made sense of by the breakdown of social securities and standards in networks that

are impacted by destitution, disparity, relocation, or urbanization.

Structural strain theory: This theory proposes that crime is a result of the

gap between the cultural goals and the institutional means of achieving them.

According to this theory, selling/distributing narcotics can be explained by the

frustration and discontent that arise from the inability to attain the desired social status

or material wealth through legitimate means. This can lead certain individuals to

embrace ill-conceived implies, for example, drug managing, as another option or

imaginative approach to making progress.

Conclusion

Overall, selling/circulating opiates is a kind of violation that may be regarded

differently depending on one's humanistic perspective.

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Cohen, Albert K. “The Study of Social Disorganization and Deviant Behavior.” American
Sociological Review, vol. 24, no. 6, 1959, pp. 766-776.

Felson, Marcus, and Lawrence E. Cohen. “Human Ecology and Crime: A Routine
Activity Approach.” Human Ecology, vol. 11, no. 4, 1983, pp. 389-406.