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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Drug crime"”.
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With a little help from my friends: Exploring the perceptions and utility of partners of drug crime.
Co-offending and drug crime scholarship have rarely crossed paths. Whenever co-offending and drug crime are investigated together, the work is almost always quantitative. Thus much remains unknown about why drug dealers cooperate criminally. To provide a modest contribution to what is otherwise a …
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The Effect of Plea Bargaining Vs. Trial Conviction on the Sentencing of Offenders Charged with a Drug Offense in Cook County, Illinois
… Some ask why two people charged with the same crime should receive different sentences based on the adjudication method. The Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial. Innocent defendants may decide to plead guilty for a sure short sentence rather than risk a trial conviction's …
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Political economy of drugs and insurgency: the case of Punjab
… for the past decade, which, along with a rise in drug use and trade, represents grounds for a crisis that threatens its post-insurgency stability. The unaddressed drug epidemic allows the emerging drug-crime-terror nexus to thrive. However, national and state-level elites and politicians continue …
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The utility of qualitative approaches in the investigation of the relationship between substance misuse and crime
… the relationship between substance misuse and crime. Whilst extensive research exists in this area, there remains a paucity of research utilising qualitative methodology. A narrative review demonstrates the complex nature of the drug/crime relationship and provides an argument for the use of …
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Effectiveness of the Criminal Justice Process in Reducing Drug & Drug-Related Crimes in England & Wales
Current views on drug legislation and policies have focused on law enforcement and the coercive trend of treatment approaches under the supervision of the criminal justice system with more punitive provisions against traffickers and dealers, especially for Class A drugs, either in sentencing length …
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Juvenile Substance Abuse and Criminal Career Continuity
The issue of juvenile drug abuse and criminal career continuity has become a nationwide concern in the last 3 decades. Social scientists and policymakers alike are concerned with the plausible relationship between juvenile drug abuse and adult crimes of high seriousness. This study represents an …
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Born of Coatlicue: Literary Inscriptions of Women in Violence from the Mexican Revolution to the Drug War
… explores how women use their agency to enact the Drug War violence, or to report about it though the narconovela. Whether they seek to perpetuate drug crime and profit from it, or denounce it, their stories deserve to be told. These novels highlight female positions in the narcotics trade, in …