Drug Violations
Essay title: Drug Violations
Drug Trafficking
The topic that will be discussed in this paper is drug trafficking and the theory that I will be applying to the drug trafficking issue is the social structure theory. This paper will outline what drug trafficking is and what the social structure theory also is. I believe that if the social structure in America was fixed and cleaned up then drug trafficking issue that is so big within America, would be crushed and eventually be stopped. The first paragraph will talk about drug trafficking and describe what it is and also some of the different types of drugs that are being trafficked today within America. The second paragraph will talk about the social structure theory and what it exactly. The third paragraph will combine the two topics, drug trafficking and the social structure theory, and show how the social structure theory can help improve efforts in stopping drug trafficking in America today and the final paragraph will conclude the essay and briefly outline what was discussed in the paper.
Drug trafficking is one of the biggest problems today in America. “Drug trafficking is the most widespread and lucrative organized crime operation in the United States, accounting for nearly 40 percent of this countrys organized crime activity and generating an annual income estimated to be as high as $110 billion” (
“Many criminologists view the disadvantaged economic class position as a primary casue of crime. This view is referred to as the social structre theory. As a group, social structure theories suggest that social and economic forces operating in deteriorated lower-class areas push many of their residents into criminal behaviour patterns” (Siegal 181). This theory basiclly means that people are being pushed into committing crime. Such crimes committed are drug trafficking, assault