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Showing 1 to 20 of 432 for “"Illicit"”.
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The global politics of illicit-drug control
… wider availability and growing consumption of illicit drugs. The increase in drug trafficking and drug use has occurred despite increasing international action to prevent it. In describing the situation as a "drug problem", policy-makers have responded to the concern as if it were a single …
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Elemental and Molecular and Profiling of Illicit Tobacco
… are significantly heightened when the tobacco is illicit due to the use of poor grade unregulated tobacco and sub-standard delivery systems. This research that was conducted in collaboration with Lancashire Trading Standards and allows for the profiling of a diverse range of different tobaccos …
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Dynamics of the illicit drug market in Italy
Alongside street crime, a high prevalence of illicit drug consumption in the population represents a great source of funding for organized crime, and this is especially true in Italy, where the main criminal organizations control almost all the imports of cocaine and heroin: as a consequence, it is …
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Development of Effective Procedures for Illicit Discharge Risk Mapping
… sewer systems (MS4s) are required to address illicit discharges as part of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater program. Field reconnaissance is an effective measure to detect and identify illicit discharges, but requires substantial staff and financial …
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Criminalising illicit enrichment to combat economic crime in South Africa
… This study examines the criminalisation of illicit enrichment, its relevance in the South African legal system, and the issues that it raises. This paper also explains why criminalising illicit enrichment is vital in South Africa and how it can be done without compromising the constitutional …
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The Treasury of Stories: Policy Narratives of Anti-Illicit Finance
… identifies and responds to the problem of illicit finance, specifically, why the US Treasury utilizes certain approaches over others. I employ a comparative case study of three relatively recent, non-traditional approaches in the Treasury’s anti-illicit finance repertoire: targeted …
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The Political Economy of St. Catharines' Illicit Taxi Trade
… the paradoxical co-optation of the growing illicit taxi economy and consequences for racialized and foreign credentialed labour in the taxi industry. The overall objective of this research is to explore the illicit cab industry as not only inseparable from the formal economy, but …
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The recent spike in illicit tobacco trade in South Africa
… have been attributed to upward spikes in the illicit tobacco trade. This dissertation explores the upward spike in the illicit tobacco trade, in order to assess whether or not a relationship exists between tobacco companies’ actions and the spike in illicit activity. The study analyses …
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Shooting up : the impact of illicit economics on military conflict
The study explores the nexus between illicit economies and military conflicts. It investigates when and how access by belligerents to the production and trafficking of illicit substances affects the strength of belligerents and governments. Although narcotics trafficking is often treated as sui …
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Genetic engineering of antibody fragments for the detection of illicit drugs
The monitoring of illicit drugs is now of major importance. Key areas of analysis include the detection of illicit use by drivers, workplace testing, forensic investigations and general monitoring to detect or reduce abuse. Thus, the development of a highly sensitive and reliable array-based assay …
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Crime, culture and collecting: the illicit cycad market in South Africa
It is widely accepted that illicit markets are driven by specific contextual factors that determine their nature and scope. Two points in particular have not been explored in the literature on wildlife crime. First, while illicit markets around commodities such as drugs and weapons are fuelled by …
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Illicit Drug Use and Unmet Healthcare Needs In Ontario: An Exploratory Study
… healthcare and unmet healthcare needs among the illicit drug using population in Ontario, and to determine if the decriminalisation of recreational cannabis consumption had any significant effects on the unmet healthcare needs of the cannabis-using population. Methods: Data from the 2017-2018 and …
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Perceptions of illicit drugs and drug users: myth-understandings and policy consequences
… papers researching the dangerous adulteration of illicit drugs, reflects these issues strongly. An area almost untouched by social science prior to this research these papers represent an attempt to pull together a range of evidence to inform more fully about drug adulteration practices. A wide …
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Smoking cessation in South Africa: cigarette prices, plain packaging, and illicit trade
… The design of the experiment accounted for illicit cigarettes so as to reflect current market conditions closely. The willingness to pay for cigarette packs with different attributes was also estimated using a Becker–DeGroot– Marschak auction. Since increasing excise taxes increases the …
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Negative affect and illicit substance use: The moderating role of self-control
… relation between momentary negative affect and illicit substance use in a sample of current substance users with a history of substance use disorders. I predicted that the adjusting and persisting, but not the monitoring aspects of self-control would moderate the relation between momentary …
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The constitutional case for legal regulation of illicit drugs in South Africa
… of certain psychoactive substances deemed illicit and the criminalisation of their production, distribution and use, to wit: prohibition drug policy. This paper contends that prohibition drug policy is unsound on the grounds that it is utterly ineffective and vulgarly counterproductive. …
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Identifying Subtypes and Consequences of Illicit Use of Prescription Stimulants: A Pilot Study
<p>Illicit prescription stimulant use (IPSU) is a growing phenomenon among college students in the United States. IPSU is defined as taking a stimulant medication without a prescription or taking a stimulant prescription in higher doses than prescribed. To date, there are four major questions …
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She is Right to Behave Thus: Implications of Illicit Rendezvous in Medieval Narrative
While preconceptions of the Middle Ages often rely on assumptions about Christianity and the kind of society that the Catholic Church promoted, the reality is that the historical and literary medieval world is much more complicated. When discussing the issues of sexuality, women, and sexual …
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