The explanations of why do juveniles do drugs can vary. Edwin Sutherland suggest that because we leave in such a materialistic world that only a few members of society can achieve. Juveniles most often getting disappointed turning to drug use were they rejects both cultural goals of success and the approve means to achieve success. Many times juveniles turning themselves to criminals to achieve success by joining the drug trade, that society sees as deriving, which in many cases the juveniles fails twice retreating to the drug world. Edwin also suggests that deviant behavior is learned and that the youth with delinquent and criminal activities problems some times are viewed to be positive through family members and peers at school. The reason for this is because there are many different groups in America and every individual group has different norms of what they perceive as success or as failure. For example a drug dealer can be viewed by a group as bad, were another group with different norms can view him as successful. Therefore juvenile are positively reinforced by his group leading him to drug use and criminal activity.
The social control theory delinquency is the result of the weakening of social control. That without social controlled norms juveniles will pursue self-interest and pleasure. A strong social institution greatly reduces the chance of deviant behavior, were the weakening of the conventional bond, the juvenile is more likely to use drugs and display illicit behavior. .
Socializations into drug use by the subculture happens when an adolescents begins to use drugs and continue using because of the social group he/she associates with, for example if the teenager spend most of his time with friends that drink then he/she is more likely to drink. Adolescents that are prone to use drugs many times have friends that introduce them to it or have family members that glorify the use, were they see it as positive.
