This Course is designed for MSc Criminology program, This course aims to develop an understanding and extent of drug use in society. It promotes understanding of the impelled relationship between drug use and crime and help to grasp multidisciplinary understanding of the reasons why people use drugs and further augments thinking about different strategies to reducing drug related crimes and their allied effectiveness. After completion of this course, the students will be able to explain models of addiction, reasons as to why drug use or abuse is a more serious problem, and why the genetic and biophysiological theories to use drug often lead to abuse in terms of addictive disorders, drug addiction with various types of mental disorders, reinforcement or learning theory and some of its applications to drug use and abuse, sensation-seeking individuals and drug use, primary and secondary deviance, master status, retrospective interpretation, low-risk and high-risk drug choices which directly affect drug use.
Course Credit Hours: 03
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Mid Term: 30 marks
Sessional: 20 marks
-Assignment: 02 (5+5)
-Presentation: 05
-Participation: 05
Final Exam: 50 marks
Total : 100 marks
Course Material
- Total Lessons 25
- Department Sociology and Criminology
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Teacher
Dr. Yasir Nawaz Manj
