Drugs, female criminality and detention in Europe

If drug addictionrepresents a social problem, one of the fundamental aspects of this is the relationship between drugs and criminality. The author's proposal of analysis begins by explaining the misunderstanding that drug addiction is equivalent to criminal behaviour. According to the author, it is drug abuse itself that leads to an extremely complex series of crimes. In particular, apart from the specific elements that characterise female drug addictions and apart from the aspects highlighted by numerous authors concerning female delinquency, it should also be underlined how the relationship between drugs and criminality, while it does not completely differ from the terms outlined above, still recognises characteristics that are of considerable interest when, as often happens in the lives of many drug addicts, the female drug addict and prepetrator of a crime, not only experiences inprisonment but also underage children.