Drugs and Their Relationship to youth formation of Gangs in urban neighborhoods - A field study-

Abstract

Algerian society has recently noted the spread of drugs (possession, abuse, trade) significantly, especially among young people, for several reasons, whether economic, social, or psychological, as these young people have become gangs containing a group of drug addicts and traffickers.

These young people also pose a threat to those around them, especially in the neighborhoods in which they live, especially urban neighborhoods, which have become suffering from the presence of strangers and intruders on them either to buy drugs or promote them, and it has also become an arena for quarrels between young people, especially under the influence of drugs and using various weapons such as knives, swords, sticks... Etc.

One of the characteristics of urban neighborhoods has become a large number of criminals in them with the multiplicity of forms of crimes they commit, such as the crime of infringement on others, the crime of theft, whether it is theft of homes or theft of shops, due to their need for money to buy drugs.

Therefore, this leads us to ask the following question: Are drugs related to young people forming gangs in residential neighborhoods?