Unit 1 Individual Project: ALCOHOLISM AND CRIME

Running head: ALCOHOLISM AND CRIME

ALCOHOLISM AND CRIME

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Unit 1 Individual Project

According to sociologist, C. Wright Mills, people often believe that their private lives can only be explained in terms of their personal successes and failures. They fail to see the links between their own individual lives and the society around them. The process of interpreting your individual life in the context of your community or the society in which you live is called sociological imagination.

1. Choose ONE of the following issues:

· Being unemployed and the impact of unemployment as a broad issue

· Being an alcoholic or drug addict and the broader impact of alcoholism/drug addiction on society

· Being an unmarried pregnant teenager and the impact that unmarried teen pregnancy has on society

· Being a homeless person and the broader issue of poverty in society

2. Use your sociological imagination to discuss the connection between individual experiences and the social impact of the issue you chose

This assignment will also be assessed using additional criteria provided  here .

C.W Mills stated that social imagination is the ability to understand and imagine all the aspects of an individual’s biography and his historical structure of his social life. This gives each individual the essence of ones life as having meaning and of importance and in matters of how one organizes his/ her social life. (Dingwall, 2006). 

There was large economic, social and economic up hills in which one has to live and organize those patterns in their lives. C. W Mills had a feeling that sociological imaginations distinguished an individual with his/her surrounding and their social structures inform of public issues.

Alcohol was the widely used and abused drug allover the world. It was no wonder why alcohol was a problem. Alcoholism was the problem. Alcoholism involves physical and physiological addiction to alcohol. This disease is usually progressive. Alcoholics have a sense of what s likely to occur to them. In this scenario, alcoholics were not ready to stop taking as some it gave them some courage to do things they could not face while sober. Alcohol became a major contributor of crimes committed during these times. Some crimes such as murder and rape were all linked to individuals who had taken alcohol. Alcohol became a major killer on the roads in the U.S as most people drove under the influence of alcohol. An estimated twenty five thousand Americans lost their lives annually due to alcoholism. (Bennett, & Holloway, 2005). 

References

Bennett, T., & Holloway, K. (2005). Understanding drugs, alcohol and crime. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Dingwall, G. (2006). Alcohol and crime. Cullompton, UK: Willan.

http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/costs/a/aa980415.htm

http://www.saratogian.com/general-news/20110313/alcoholism-series-alcohol-and-crime-statistics