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This 15 page paper discusses various aspects of the issue of drugs and urban violence and comments on the strength of the link between drug use and urban violence. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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comments on the strength of the link between drug use and urban violence. Discussion - Drugs and Urban Violence Violence isnt confined to urban centers; it occurs everywhere. However, most
sources agree that the population density found in urban areas is one factor that might help explain why violence seems more prevalent in cities. That is, where there are more
people there is more crime. Its also important to note that there are many different types of violence: "spontaneous drive-by shootings and meticulously planned serial killings ... are both included
in the legal and statistical category of murder" (Roth, 1994). In addition, because there are so many causes of violence, its useful to classify them "in terms of the four
levels of analysis at which they are usually studied"; these levels are "macrosocial," "microsocial," "psychosocial" and "neurobehavioral" (Roth, 1994). Macrosocial factors are the "broad social and economic forces" that affect
behavior; microsocial factors take into account "encounters between people in particular settings"; psychosocial factors account for "individual behavioral development from childhood through adulthood"; and neurobehavioral factors describe the biological processes
"that underlie all human behavior" (Roth, 1994). It is possible we will find that drugs have an impact at all four levels. Roth begins his analysis by observing that many
outbreaks of violence are seemingly spontaneous, but may in fact actually be the end result of a long chain of events that began months, even years, earlier (Roth, 1994). That
is, although the "triggering mechanism" for the violence may be easily recognized (someone insults another person, for instance), the reason the response was violent may lie in "predisposing factors that
months or years earlier increased the risk of a future violent event" (Roth,1994). Many of these chains of casual events "include links to alcohol or to illegal psychoactive drugs" (Roth,
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