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Course Learning Outcomes for Unit VI Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to: 9. Analyze violence, crime, and vandalism in schools. Reading Assignment Chapter 11: Community Policing and Drugs Chapter 12: Bringing Youths into Community Policing Unit Lesson There are many correlations to crime. Correlations of crime include factors such as poverty, unemployment, mental illness, IQ, and substance abuse. Many studies have been devoted to looking specifically at the connection between drugs and crime. Youth throughout the entire United States are surveyed annually to assess their initial and continued exposure to drugs through self, friends, and/or family use. Data describing drug use across age groups report alarming trends. For example, more than half of young adults will have tried at least one illicit drug by their late 20s with more than 10% reporting trying illicit drugs prior to the eighth grade and using illicit drugs on a daily basis (Miller, Hess, & Orthmann, 2014). In the United States, the illicit use of marijuana has been an ongoing debate. Many argue that marijuana is a drug that has various recreational and medicinal uses and that it should not be considered illicit. Others have argued that because of marijuana’s ability to impair the senses and to cause cognitive degeneration over time, it should be kept as an illicit drugs. One of the major concerns about marijuana use is that marijuana is said to be a gateway drug that opens the door for harsher drug abuse and addiction. Critics of this gateway theory point to national trends, which suggest that most young adults try illicit drugs in their teens as a form of experimentation and do not continue that drug use beyond their young adult years. The debates surrounding marijuana become even more interesting, as many states have begun to legalize the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana, but the federal government continues to view marijuana as an illicit drug. In addition, synthetic forms of marijuana have become more readily available to youth, increasing their likelihood to use the illicit drug. In addition to marijuana, there are other drugs that are widely used by youth. The use of methamphetamines has continued to grow among youth ages 12 and older. The use of methamphetamine is of grave concern because of the chemicals used to produce the drug and the volatility of the laboratories in which the drugs are produced. The federal government has attempted to combat the use of methamphetamines through harsh restrictions on the sale of the chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine as well as the development of environmentally sound cleanup procedures for identified methamphetamine labs. There are also forms of drug use that are only illegal for some groups because of the age restrictions placed on the use of those substances. Underage drinking is a phenomenon that exists because the legal limit for alcohol consumption is 21 years of age. Research has demonstrated that many youth have tried alcohol while under the age of 21. The most concerning type of underage drinking is binge drinking in which a person consumes five or more consecutive drinks in one setting. 

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