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Crime and Heroin Use

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Until the late 1970s heroin misuse or addiction was not considered to be a major source of criminal behaviour in the United Kingdom. There is, of course, a direct causative relationship between heroin misuse and some types of offence under the drug control legislation simply because, other than in cases of addiction as a result of treatment for physical disease or injury, the misuser usually obtains his first supplies of heroin illegally—most often by sharing friends’ supplies however they were obtained, or by theft or forgery, or from the illicit market.

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  1. Joy Mott
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Nottingham, UK

    David K. Whynes (Senior Lecturer in Economic) (Senior Lecturer in Economic)

  2. University of Loughborough, UK

    Philip T. Bean (Reader in Criminology) (Reader in Criminology)

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Mott, J. (1991). Crime and Heroin Use. In: Whynes, D.K., Bean, P.T. (eds) Policing and Prescribing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11451-1_6

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