RT Book
T1 Drugs, insecurity and failed states: the problems of prohibition
T2 Adelphi
JF Adelphi
A1 Inkster, Nigel
A2 Comolli, Virginia
LA English
PP Abingdon, Oxon u.a.
PB Routledge
YR 2012
ED 1. publ.
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/690259034
AB The world's wealthiest nations have expended vast blood and treasure in tracking and capturing traffickers, dealers and consumers of narcotics, as well as destroying crops and confiscating shipments. Yet the global trade in illicit drugs is thriving with no apparent change in the level of consumption despite decades of prohibition. This Adelphi argues that the present enforcement regime is not only failing to win the "war on drugs"; it is also igniting and prolonging that conflict on the streets of producer and transit countries, where the supply chain has become interwoven with state institutions and cartels have become embroiled in violence against their rivals and with security forces. What can be done to secure the worst affected regions and states, such as Latin America and Afghanistan? By examining the destabilizing effects of prohibition, as well as alternative approaches such as that adopted by the authorities in Portugal, this book shows how progress may be made by treating consumption as a health-care issue rather than a criminal matter, thereby freeing states to tackle the cartels and traffickers who hold their communities to ransom
CN HV5801
SN 9780415627061
K1 Drug abuse and crime
K1 Drug control
K1 Drug traffic
K1 Staatszerfall
K1 Kriminalität
K1 state-failure
K1 Criminality
K1 Drogenmissbrauch : Drogenpolitik : Entkriminalisierung : Prohibition