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Cross-National Drug Policy: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series, cartea 582

Editat de Robert MacCoun, Peter Reuter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iul 2002
While citizens experiment with illegal drugs, their governments experiment with regulations to prohibit drugs. Scholars, analysts, and policy makers who know what legal prohibitions other countries have tried and found successful will have a better chance of crafting effective drug policy for their countries. This special issue of The Annals describes the experiences of eleven countries: Australia, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, France, Iran, Jamaica, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden. Articles are grouped by geography and wealth: the wealthy West, the western hemisphere, and the transition countries.''The drug problems of wealthy Western nations have generally worsened since the 1960s. Some have no clearly articulated vision behind their drug policy (e.g. Denmark); others have tough policies (e.g. Sweden). France and Portugal both recently instituted sharp changes in drug policy. While no outcome results are yet available from Portugal, France has experience a huge increase in the number of users in treatment. AustraliaÆs strong harm-reduction policy remains in place despite increasing heroin deaths and other drug-related problems.''U.S. consumption and U.S. international drug policies affect western hemisphere countriesÆ policy as well as generate problems for them. Although Mexican drug use remains at modest levels, the country faces violent and powerful criminal groups. The groupsÆ creation is related to MexicoÆs role as the principal source and primary transshipment route for drugs bound for the U.S. IN Jamaica, another route for cocaine shipped to the U.S. and another focus of U.S. international drug policy, drug trafficking has exacerbated the long-standing problem of politically related gang violence by increasing the moneys and weapons involved. Drug use is a relatively minor concern of Columbian policy, also under U.S. pressure; instead, it focuses on trafficking and related corruption and violence.''Iran and Russia are countries in transition. Contending with fundamental economic and social change following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has had little political debate regarding its highly intolerant drug policy. IranÆs drug policies have frequently shifted during its long history of dealing with opiate abuse, from harsh punishment to regulation of use and back again. Most recently, more therapeutically oriented approaches have been tried.''Two articles address geographically broader issues. One shows how U.S. politicians distorted results from a study of needle exchange in Vancouver. The other discusses creation of a new regulatory regime for governing developed nationsÆ banking systems, in the belief that illegal drugs account for a substantial fraction of suspicious financial transactions, particularly across national borders.
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ISBN-13: 9780761927440
ISBN-10: 0761927441
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 157 x 231 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Seria The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series

Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

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ARTICLES
Preface: The Varieties of Drug Control at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century - Robert MacCoun and Peter Reuter
Danish Drug Policy: An Ambivalent Balance Between Repression and Welfare - Lau Laursen and Jorgen Jepsen
Policy Paradigms, Ideas, and Interests: The Case of the French Public Health Policy Toward Drug Abuse - Henri Bergeron and Pierre Kopp
Decriminalization of Drug Use in Portugal: The Development of a Policy - Mirjam van het Loo, Ineke van Beusekom, and James P. Kahan
Swedish Drug Policy in the Twenty-First Century: A Policy Model Going Astray - Leif Lenke and Boerje Olsson
Harm Minimization in a Prohibition Context: Australia - Gabriele Bammer, Wayne Hall, Margaret Hamilton, and Robert Ali
Science, Ideology, and Needle Exchange Programs - Martin T. Schechter
Illegal Drugs in Columbia: From Illegal Economic Boom to Social Crisis - Francisco E. Thoumi
Policy Paradox: Implications of U.S. Drug Control Policy for Jamaica - Marlyn J. Jones
Mexico's War on Drugs: No Margin for Maneuver - Jorge Chabat
The Drug Market in Iran - Fariborz Raisdana with the cooperation of Ahmad Gharavi Nakhjavani
The Price of Freedom: Illegal Drug Markets and Policies in Post-Soviet Russia - Letizia Paoli
Money Laundering and Its Regulation - Michael Levi
Review Article: Black Flower: Prisons and the Future of Incarceration - Marie Gottschalk