Research on Drugs - Crime Linkages : The Next Generation
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The association between drugs and crime in the public mind is so strong that a recent psychology experiment showed the word “drug” tightly linked to such words as “choke,” “knife,” “fight,” and “wound” in participants’ associative memory networks (Bushman, 1996). Although it is routine in academia to deride public ignorance of all things criminological, in this case the public is hardly deluded. Consider the following facts:
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