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income. Table 6 shows the results of this analysis; three groups are
distinguished.
TABLE 6!
In table 2 it was shown that 53% of the respondents committed at
least one property crime in a one month period. For 22% of the sample this
kind of activity is the main source of income. The majority of the sample
draws income mainly from legal sources. It should be noted that prostitution
and other commercial sex activities are included within these legal
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Of course, this rough typology is merely an economic model. In order
to unravel the relationship between the use of drugs and the level of crime
sociologically, it is necessary to consider other characteristics, such as
the type and amount of drugs used, the age of the respondents, the phase of
their addiction career, life style factors and the significance of
methadone maintenance. In the next sections we take a closer look at those
characteristics. We
develop a typology to characterize addicts. by their
income-generating activities and life style patterns. This typology
includes the "dealing junkie" (type 1) the "crillinal junkie" (type 2) and
the "Dorsalizad u •• r" (type 3).
1. THE DEALING JUNKIE
This type of users consists mainly of men from the Surinam community.
The average "dealing junkie" is older than 30 years and started using hard
drugs more than 8 years ago. He is a poly drug user and has a
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According to Dutch law, prostitution in itself is not a criminal
offense.
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