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Cannabis - dried flower buds that contain high levels of THC and are smoked, vaped, or ingested (as in baked goods) especially for their intoxicating effect.
Ideological censure - crime as an ideological censure refers to criminalising behaviours to maintain political control and to counter any perceived threat to the legitimacy of the ruling class.
Judiciary - a system of courts of law
Lord Devlin - a British judge and legal philosopher.
Marital rape - the act of sex with your husband or wife without consent.
Matthew Hopkins - an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War.
Nelson Mandela - a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Political economy - the study of how economic and political systems are linked.
Prohibition - the action of forbidding something, especially by law.
Punitive - inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment
Rendez-vous - to meet or come together at a particular time and place.
Social construct - an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society.
Social order - a particular system of social structures and institutions - in other words, the hierarchies in society.
Socio-political - something that involves both social and political factors. An example of something that is sociopolitical is the issue of environmental conservation, which is influenced by both social attitudes towards "going green" and by political policies.
Underdog - someone or something thought to have little chance of winning a fight or contest, or a person with little political status.
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Ambiguity - the quality of being open to more than one interpretation
Bhopal - a city in central India.
Bhopal disaster - a chemical accident that became the worst industrial disaster in history.
Cladding - a covering or coating on a structure or material.
Corporate crime - crimes committed either by a corporation, or by individuals acting on behalf of a corporation or other businesses, in pursuit of their own interests.
Corporate witnesses - somebody on the inside of a corporation or business that has vital information in return for immunity.
Diffusion - the spreading of something more widely.
Explicable - when we are able to account for or understand something.
Flammable - something that can easily catch fire.
Garner - to gather or collect.
Genocide - the deliberate killing of a large number of people.
Grenfell Fire - a fire in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, that killed 72 people.
Immunity - protection or exemption from something, especially punishment or penalty.
Legislation - a law or a set of laws that have been passed by Parliament.
Methyl isocyanate - a dangerous, colourless, highly flammable liquid used in the production of pesticides, polyurethane foam, and plastics.
Punitive gaze - deliberately seeing what you want to see and ignoring the rest.
Relatable illnesses - illnesses directly linked to an event or disaster.
Scapegoats - a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others.
Unconventional - not based on or conforming to what is generally done or believed.
Victimisation - the action of singling someone out for cruel or unjust treatment.
Victim Precipitation - a sociological theory that suggests that the characteristics and behaviours of the victim lead to or enable the crime that occurs.
White collar crime - a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status.
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'War on drugs' - a global campaign of drug prohibition, led by the U.S. federal government.
Agriculture - the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
Anti-communism - an opposition to communist ideas or ideologies.
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency in the USA.
Coercion - persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.
Colombian cartel - notable drug lords which operate in illegal drug trafficking in Colombia.
County lines - where illegal drugs are transported from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries.
Deception - the action of deceiving someone.
Decriminalisation - where you stop considering something as illegal.
Displacement theory - argues that removing the opportunity for crime or seeking to prevent a crime by changing the situation in which it occurs does not actually prevent crime but merely moves it around.
Domestic work - those workers who perform work in or for a private household or households.
Drug trafficking - global trade involving the manufacture, distribution and sale of substances which are illegal.
Entrepreneurship - the activity of setting up a business or businesses with financial risk.
Equatorial Guinea - a Central African country.
Globalisation - the process by which businesses or other organisations develop international Influence or start operating on an international scale.
Human trafficking - illegally moving people from one place to another with the intention to benefit from them or their work.
Iatrogenic - When actions to solve a problem actually cause more harm than good.
Illicit - forbidden by law, rules, or custom.
Intermediaries - a person who acts as a link between people in order to try and bring about an agreement.
Latin America - the entire continent of South America in addition to Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean whose inhabitants speak a Romance language.
Millenia - a period of a thousand years.
Narco-state - a country whose economy is dependent on the trade in illegal drugs.
Narcotics - opiates such as morphine and codeine - they can be very dangerous if used in the wrong way.
Pablo Escobar - a Colombian drug lord.
Perception - the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted.
Richard Nixon - the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
Sir Mo Farah - a British long-distance runner. His ten global championship gold medals make him the most successful male track distance runner ever, and he is the most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history.
Systematic - acting according to a fixed plan or system
Transnationalisation - states are impacted by international flows of products and money
Trinidad - a dual-island Caribbean nation near Venezuela.
UN - United Nations
Weaponisation - the act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
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Caribbean - the region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (including the West Indies), and the surrounding coasts.
Detrimental - tending to cause harm.
