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Title Drugs, law and the state / edited by Harold H. Traver, Mark S. Gaylord
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 176 pages)
Contents Contributors; Acknowledgments; Dedication / Karl Schuessler; Foreword / Alan A. Block; Introduction / Mark S. Gaylord and Harold H. Traver; Part I. Drug Control Policy and the State; 1. The Consequences of Prohibition: Crime, Corruption, and International Narcotics Control / William J. Chambliss; 2. Drugs and Social Control in Scandinavia: A Case Study in International Moral Entrepreneurship / Jorgen Jepsen; 3. Drugs and the Law in Post-Franco Spain / Axel R. Reeg; 4. Finnish Drug Control Policy: Change and Accommodation / Ahti Laitinen; Part II. The Political Economy of Drugs
Summary This book contains nine essays written by distinguished scholars from North America. Europe, and Asia, and provides an in-depth examination of the socio-legal developments of drug control in different countries. Important rational approaches to the formulation of drug policy are discussed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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In Digital Editions from Hong Kong University Press
Subject Drug control -- Cross-cultural studies
Drug traffic -- Cross-cultural studies
Drug abuse -- Cross-cultural studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Drug abuse
Drug control
Drug traffic
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Traver, Harold.
Gaylord, Mark S.
ISBN 9789882201071
9882201075