Need to Buy Drugs as Cause of Offending

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.