Therapeutic Communities are a means of attacking the high relapse rate of addicts who are detoxified and returned to the larger society, enabling individuals to reenter social life gradually and at their own pace which eliminating the shock of moving from a protective institutional environment to the much greater freedom of the outside world. Control Strategies are social policies that attempt to help individuals or groups control their own behavior - coupled with efforts to build local institutions that provide helping services. Law Enforcement attempts to tighten the enforcement of existing laws or to enact new laws designed to deal with the problem more effectively. Legalization of hard drugs remains a highly controversial issue while many people advocate for the legalization of marijuana. The criminal law in any society prohibits certain acts and prescribes the punishments to be meted out to violators.
Civil law are laws that deal with noncriminal acts in which one individual injures another.
Victimization reports are surveys conducted by the Census Bureau who collects information from a representative sample of crime victims and tries to supplement UCR data. Violent personal crimes include assault, robbery, various forms of homicide. Robbery usually occurs between strangers, murder occurs between friends or relatives. Property crimes include vandalism, check forgery, and shoplifting. White-collar crime is committed by people who break the law as part of their normal business activity and include embezzlement, fraud and insider trading in the securities industry.