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Drug Abuse and Drug Related Crimes: Some Unresolved Legal Problems

NCJ Number
125449
Author(s)
S K Chatterjee
Date Published
1989
Length
282 pages
Annotation
This analysis of legal issues related to drug control policies focuses on the relationships between control programs and treatment objectives, on the efforts to address the problem of international drug trafficking, and on the United Nations conventions on drug control.
Abstract
Individual chapters examine the legal issues related to drug abuse among youth, the application of the principle of the free movement of goods in the European Common Market to the trade in alcohol and other drugs, and the combined and separate approaches to alcohol and other drug problems. Further papers examine unresolved legal issues relating to punishing criminal offenders, the forfeiture of proceeds of drug-related crimes in the British Commonwealth, drug trafficking as organized crime, and international initiatives regarding asset forfeiture. The Draft Conventions developed by the United Nations are also discussed. Index and appended United Nations report and draft legal guidelines on electronic funds transfers.