ABSTRACT
Crime is one of, if not the major, attendant problems of drug misuse. At one level drugs and crime are linked if only because it is an offence to possess certain substances unlawfully. However, at another level, where drugs are said to cause, influence or be associated with crime, matters are less clear. For whilst there is considerable anecdotal evidence, aided by some research that drug use causes crime, the closer we get to establishing a causal connection, the more difficult things become.
