Economic Characteristics of Drug Offenders in Al-Muthanna Governorate for the Year 2021

Abstract

The research aims to shed light on one of the most crimes that pose a great danger to the individual and society, which is drug crimes, whether they are abused or trafficked and promoted. In Muthanna Governorate, the research adopted a specific methodology represented in presenting the conceptual aspect with regard to crime, offender, trafficking and abuse and their relationship to the study area, and then studying the professional structure of the perpetrators of this type of crime and dividing it into four categories (unemployed, earner, employee, student) and studying their monthly income And determine its relationship to committing drug crimes, and the research reached a number of results, the most important of which was the great discrepancy in the volume of drug crimes between the different economic levels of its perpetrators. (52.4%), followed by the category of earners with a percentage of (30.2%), while students and employees accounted for (17.4%), which requires the establishment of a Security institutions specialized in combating narcotics and psychotropic substances may limit the spread of the scourge of drugs, and the competent government agencies should improve the economic level and provide job opportunities for the unemployed in the governorate.