Controlling Illegal Drugs: A Comparative Study (New Lines in Criminology) Book

In interlinking case studies, Segre presents and compares the drug policies of three countries ? the United States, Sweden, and Italy ? and entertains both theoretical and practical objectives. The focus of the study is on limiting the use and abuse of narcotics (such as marijuana, hashish, cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines) and on suppressing the traffic in these drugs. A primary objective of this study is theoretical: to evaluate and explain, by means of a comparative method applied to the study of individual cases, the respective level of success of these policies, measured according to conventional criteria. The aim of this comparison between the Swedish drug policies (a positive case) and the American and Italian (negative cases) is to evaluate the effect of these policies, considered as a whole as a sufficient condition, on drug consumption.Read More