Describe and explain briefly Goldstein's tripartite conceptual model for understanding the drug/crime relationshi

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• Goldstein identifies three main types of drug-related crime: Psychopharmacologically driven crime presupposes that some individuals, as a result of short-term or long-term ingestion of specific drugs or chemical substances, become excitable, and/or irrational and demonstrate violent behavior. In other words, it is assumed that some drugs cause some people (even usually nonviolent ones) to become violent and engage in a variety of criminal behaviors. The prevailing view about psychopharmacological violence, however, is that it is rare and attributable mostly to alcohol rather than illicit drug. Systemic crime hypothesizes that crime arises out of the system of drug trafficking and distribution. Examples of this component include disputes over territory between rival drug dealers and threats, assaults, and murders committed within and by drug-dealing organizations. Essentially, it refers to the violence inherent in the enterprise of drug trafficking and distribution. Economically compulsive crime is criminal behavior that supports an expensive drug addiction. Robbery committed by drug users to support a costly drug habit is an example. Compulsive drug seeking and use is presumably an overwhelming drive, even in the face of negative health and social consequences, and the individual sometimes turns to crime in order to procure the drug.