Systemic Pathway
Definition
Violence generated by the structure of an illegal drug market itself, including turf disputes, debt enforcement and robbery of dealers, in the absence of courts to settle disputes.
Related terms
- Direction-of-Causation Problem
- The difficulty of establishing whether drug use causes offending, offending causes drug use, or both arise from shared upstream risk factors.
- Drug Court
- A specialist court that diverts substance-dependent offenders from prosecution into supervised treatment, with the judge playing an active monitoring role. Participants who...
- Economic-Compulsive Pathway
- Crime committed to raise money for a compulsive drug habit, most documented among dependent users of expensive drugs such as heroin and...
- Psychopharmacological Pathway
- Crime or violence produced by the direct effect of a drug on cognition, mood or self-control, independent of the cost of obtaining...
- Tripartite Framework
- Paul Goldstein's 1985 model dividing drug-related violence and crime into three separate causal pathways: psychopharmacological, economic-compulsive and systemic.