Effects of prohibition and decriminalization on drug market conflict

To reduce individual and social harms, most nations prohibit certain psychoactive drugs. Yet, prior scholarship has suggested that prohibition reduces illicit drug sellers’ access to law and thereby increases predation against and retaliation by them. No prior study, however, has directly tested tha...

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Main Author: Scott, Jacques (Author)
Contributors: Rosenfeld, Richard ; Wright, Richard
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
In: Criminology & public policy
Year: 2016, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 843-875
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Keywords:
Decriminalization
Drogenlegalisierung
Drug market
Entkriminalisierung
Niederlande
Prohibition
Social control
Victimization