Tittel: | Thoughts on Drug Policy, Public Health, and Crime : More Support for Decriminalization |
Ansvar: | Douglas Husak |
Forfatter: | Husak, Douglas ![](App_Themes/Common/Help.png) |
Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk |
Signatur: | Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice |
Utgitt: | Bergen : Universitetet i Bergen, 2018 |
Omfang: | S. 1-19 |
ISBN/ISSN: | 1894-4183 |
Serie: | Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ; 1/2018 ![](App_Themes/Common/Help.png) |
Note: | Open access.
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Innhold: | In this paper I describe the nature of my interest in drug policy; discuss questions about whether and why drugs pose a public health problem; present some empirical results that bear on whether drug proscriptions might be justified because of their causal role in contributing to crime; hazard a few observations about how a society should deal with drug problems; and comment on the recent opiate epidemic plaguing much of the United States. My overall conclusion is that a good rationale for drug prohibitions has yet to be found, and the liberal alternative to criminalization, which recommends that drug use be treated as a public health problem, is problematic as well---even though it certainly would be an improvement on the status quo. |
Del av verk: | Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 1/2018 (Vol. 6) |