Module X: A Summary

Most criminological research focuses on communities, where some assume and think that small towns are quite safe and crime-free environments. Meanwhile, using methamphetamine has become surrounded in rural parts of the country. In her book Methamphetamine: A Love Story, Rashi K. Shukla focused and enlightened on the understudied of poverty and drug abuse. Through her journey, she proves emotionally how meth has become the spotlight to the lives of some residents. In the process of uncovering how and why she participated in their drug using careers, Shukla tells how the lifestyle surrounding meth use becomes as addicting as the drug itself and highlights the unsustainability of meth addiction and the struggles

Lee D. Hoffer’s “Junkie Business: The Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network” is an ethnography that details the buying and dealing of the highly addictive drug, heroin, in the particularly homeless area of Denver, Colorado called “Larimer” from 1995 to the year 2000. The majority of the book focuses on the partnership of two heroin dealers, Kurt and Danny, and examines their daily lifestyles and the transitional periods they faced during their operations. On a much broader level, Hoffer wanted to characterize the heroin dealing occurring on the consumer-oriented side of the heroin dealing business, as well as understand the evolution of Kurt and Danny’s operations. Hoffer’s virtually unlimited

The book being reviewed in this papers is Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers by Scott Jacques and Richard Wright. This book is written on the context of 30 different individuals from a small location referenced as “Peachville” in Atlanta Georgia (Jacques & Wright 1). Each of these known individuals during their time in high school were selling drugs. Marijuana was the particular substance to be sold, but few dove into other illicit drugs including ecstasy, cocaine etc. (3). Generally speaking, the first questions that appears is what pushed these students to dive into the prospects of peddling and using drugs? Better yet, why continue to use them? The 7 chapters included in this book contain various stories of popularity and financial gains and losses along with the destruction of relationships.

book Methland, through its illicit involvement in the meth epidemic, serves as a painful example

In my community, we have a bad case of drugs. In the community of Chambersburg, there is lot of heroin. Not only is there heroin but there is many other drugs that the people of Chambersburg sell and make. A few of those drugs are marijuana, cocain, and meth, ect. But it is very difficult to find out who is dealing, and who is using. Here are some article I found about drug use in Chambersburg.

Contributing to these drug issues throughout America are multiple street gangs, drug cartels and drug lords. These groups to transport illegal drugs into America, to sell them illegally on the streets, for a very hefty profit. High crime profiled states and cities such as, New York, Baltimore, Maryland, District of Columbia, and Chicago host some of America’s most notorious gangs, cartels, and drug lords. The purpose of this research paper is to analyze the life of a notorious Baltimore drug lord, by the name of Anthony Ayeni Jones, and how a life of drugs effected his personal life, caused criminal actions, and resulted in court trials and a life sentence in prison.

They struggle at first to make it, but they do eventually. They get “turned on to drugs” again. After a traumatic sexual assault, they leave the area to open a store, which they then leave to go back to their families. Again, they say that they won’t do drugs. Everyone wants them to sell, but they try to resist. They end up doing drugs again.

Chasing heroin is a documentary giving us insight information on the rapidly growing pandemic of addictions to drugs, notably heroin. The heroin epidemic is rising at an alarming

The book crank by Ellen Hopkins is about a young girl named Kristina who turns to drugs she becomes most addicted to crystle meth or the mosnter is what it is referrred to in the book through out the journy of kristinas addiction in the book she gose threw alot of struggles like being home less and having unhealthy relationships with bad giuys who will provide her with a lot of crank.

Crystal meth, or ice, is the perfect destructive drug. It’s easy to make, cheap to buy, highly addictive, and it’s everywhere. And you don’t need to touch ice to be its victim. It is intersecting with every aspect of Australian’s lives, destroying families, causing carnage on our roads and murder in our homes.

Nic Sheff was 18 and collage bound when he discovered crystal meth. At first his father had no idea. Then came a call from his school, the late nights, the lying, the ghoulish pallor and the wasting away. David’s life became an eternity of waiting, for the phone to ring, the door to open, or

This nation is facing a problem with a powerful stimulant, known as Meth. Meth is a highly addictive drug that is, and a hard to kick. Meth is a huge money making business so the marketing of the drug is not only targeted to adults, but the younger generation as well. Despite the effort with the war on drugs, Law Enforcement is facing a tough battle of controlling the clandestine meth labs, and meth brought to the United States from Mexico. Meth not only hurts the user, but families, and communities as well. Education and awareness to the public can help with the battle on Meth. Although through education, intervention, and rehabilitation there is help to combat meth abuse, meth is a potent dangerous drug that destroys lives,

In Nick Reding’s non-fiction book “Methland; The Death and Life of an American small Town”, Reding asserts that the complex webbing of meth in America Will never go away. Reding supports his claim by first integrating the stories of every day people of the American community and connects them to a broader point, such as in his example of the story of Roland Jarvis, a regular meth user, who, “had a girlfriend he wanted to marry, so he took double eight-hour shifts at Iowa ham,(49) As Jarvis’s life progressed, “ in 1992, Iowa Ham…was bought by Gillette. Overnight, the union was dismantled, and the wages, according to Jarvis and Clay Hallberg, feel from $18 an hour to $6.20. For Jarvis, who now had the first of his four children, it became more

The mini-series show a lot that was happening from Genesis to Revelation, these unforgettable stories unfold through live action and offering new insight into famous scenes and iconic characters. This show explores the sacred text’s most significant episodes, including Noah’s journey in the ark, the Exodus and the life of Jesus. In episode one, it talks about Noah enduring God’s wrath and Abraham reaches the Promised Land but still must prove his faith in God. The second episode show Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt, and his faith in God is rewarded when the Red Sea parts to allow the Israelites to escape Pharaoh’s chariots. Moses delivers his final message from God and introduce the Ten Commandments. The third episode talks about the

The house I live in is about the war on drugs and the harsh penalties that addicts get. People from all walks of life use drugs, rich, poor, college grads, women, men, and all races. Drug addicts have no face. Since 1971, the war on drugs has been responsible for 45 million arrests and over one trillion dollars. There is such a demand for drugs, that it will never end. The United States imprisons people more than China, Saudi Arabia, but that hasn’t deterred this crime. A lot of these people are dealing with poverty, joblessness, crime and drugs. Drug abuse leads to major crimes in order to get the drugs to feed their addiction. Non-violent drug offenders are getting sentences just as long as violent