The World Heroin Market
Can Supply Be Cut?
Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other opiates of nearly 16 million users. The production and trafficking of opiates have caused crime, disease, and social distress throughout the world, leading many nations to invest billions of dollars trying to suppress the industry. The failure of their efforts has become a central policy concern. Can the world heroin supply actually be cut, and with…
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Weitere Autoren: Greenfield, Victoria A. / Reuter, Peter
- ISBN: 978-0-19-971736-1
- EAN: 9780199717361
- Produktnummer: 13933533
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'078 KB
- Abbildungen: 33 b/w illus.
Über den Autor
Letizia Paoli is Professor of Criminology at the K.U. Leuven Faculty of Law, Belgium.Victoria A. Greenfield is the Crowe Chair Professor in the Economics of the Defense Industrial Base in the Department of Economics at the U.S. Naval Academy.Peter Reuter is Professor in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Criminology at the University of Maryland.
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