碩士 / 國立臺北大學 / 犯罪學研究所 / 96 / Statistics from Ministry of Justice have shown that heroin abuse has become more and more common in Taiwan. This study emphasizes on the correlation and interaction among a heroin addict’s life events, drugs abuse history and crimes in a long term. This study tries to clarify the complicated life-course of drug addicts by using developmental perspective.
This study selected three people as participants who were under rehabilitation treatment at a rehabilitation center in northern Taiwan. They were selected according to the purpose of the study: males above forty years old, heroin abuse above three years, and two formal crimes records at least. Deep interviews were used as data collection method. The interview guidelines of this study were designed according to McAdams’s life story interview, integrated with the life process development theory of Farrington, Thornberry, Sampson and Laub, and other scholars。There were also referred to the theoretical explanations of the relationship between drug abuse and criminal behavior proposed by Makkai, Payne and Goldstein. The results of the study are presented as follows:
1.Criminal behavior of an individual is not fixed. Positive and negative life events during one’s life will lead to the stability and movement of criminal behavior.
2.There exists interplay between one’s drug abuse and criminal records.
3.Heroin addicts play both the roles of criminal and victim; furthermore, are often the constant victims of certain crimes.
4.Heroin addicts tend to interpret their crimes in a unique way, regarding it as the phenomenon of criminal neutrality.
5.Criminal behavior is in inverse relation with age. Moreover, the early risk indicator can not predict precisely the long-term criminal behavior.
According to the research findings, this study provides several suggestions as below:
1.Promoting the socialization function of the family.
2.Giving a hand to the child who owns low science achievement.
3.Getting rid of the influence of the negative environment, and strengthening the function of the after-care system.
4.Offering the positive social association and chance.
5.Emphasizing the human agency is a key issue for preventing the crime.
6.The effect of incapacitation strategy which prevents the drug crimes is limited. Thus, the resources of organization should be distributed well.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/096NTPU0102029 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | HUANG, TING-YU, 黃渟鈺 |
| Contributors | SHEU, CHUEN-JIM, 許春金 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 162 |
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