Credit: New Zealand Police
Participants were asked to describe how much of their criminal offending was caused by the need to buy illegal drugs, to which nearly half (49%) of participants responded “none at all”, and a further third (33%) responded that they did not commit criminal offences to obtain money. However, 17% of participants reported that their offending was caused to some degree by their need to buy illegal drugs. Figure 42 depicts the responses to this question.