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Drug Market Research in Croatia - The Role of Drug- Related Crime

The need to reduce drug-related crime is recognized as an important policy objective within the European drug strategy. It is difficult to impose a standard definition of drug-related crime phenomenon however, in the research conducted in Croatia, the term “drug- related crime” is used to encompass three types (models) of crimes: psychopharmacological crimes, economic-compulsive crimes and systemic crimes. The purpose of the study was to obtain the data about the range of drug-related crime in Croatia and to gain insight into some of the aspects of drug-related crime.This paper will present findingsfrom the document analysis of 350 prisoner’s files, 102 files of drug violations and information from the interviews with 5 adult offenders who were sentenced for drug-related crime. Key findings of this study are that ERFCON2017.0138ERFCON2017.0191 9th International Conference of the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Zagreb17 – 19 May 2017, Zagrebmost of the drug-related crime is committed in order to obtain money (or drugs) to support further drug use and that drug users commit more crime when compared to prisoners who are not drug addicts. Results also revealed the important role of juveniles in drug market in Croatia which is the problem that should be addressed in further research.

illegal drug market ; crime

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