Furthermore, even though so many attempts have been made by law-abiding citizens in neighborhoods with high incidence of drug dealing to aid the enforcement of anti-drug laws, the already less ordered and community-oriented neighborhood have made huge obstacles for putting law into effect. Conflict theory argues that social class, power, income, and neighborhood all affect the degree to which a community is tortured by drug epidemic. Economics and politics become the primary causal factors in the spread of drug dealing. Poverty helps to create a market for drug dealing, on the demand side with people attempting to mentally escape from the sad circumstances of their lives, and on the supply side, with drug dealing becoming a source of needed …show more content…
Anderson, 1990, 1999; Wilson, 1996; Wallace, 1999a). And conflict theorists typically place more emphasis on the culpability of the upper class in society for generating these adverse conditions. According to this form of conflict theory, structural conditions, with their origins in politics and economics, have generated extreme poverty and isolation among the lower class, resulting in feelings of alienation, frustration, and hopelessness for many. Rates of drug use are exceedingly high in these communities as people seek escape and relief from these adverse life conditions which result in the wide spread of drug dealers among poverty people. Research by Lillie-Blanton et al. (1993) supports these arguments by examining the importance of community structure for dealing crack cocaine. And huge difference between the amount of drug dealing among White, Blacks and Hispanics. Lillie-Blanton et al. argued that the higher rates of drug dealing among Blacks and Hispanics was the results of economic and environmental conditions, and furthermore, they proved that once the unequal factors are controlled, the huge difference in drug dealing