Anti-drug policies in Colombia : successes, failures, and wrong turns / edited by Alejandro Gaviria and Daniel Mejia ; translated by Jimmy Weiskopf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaviria, Alejandro, 1966- editor.

Contributor:

Mejia, Daniel, editor.

Series:

Vanderbilt University Center for Latin American studies.

Vanderbilt University Center for Latin American studies

Standardized Title:

Políticas antidroga en Colombia. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Drug control--Colombia.

Drug control.

Drug traffic.

Colombia.

Drug traffic--Colombia.

Physical Description:

xi, 313 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"This book compiles the most up-to-date research and evidence on the different dimensions of drugs and drugs policy in Colombia, a country that has done everything possible to fight illicit drug production and trafficking"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Dimension of the drugs problem in Colombia : production, trafficking and consumption

The microeconomics of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia / Daniel Mejia and Daniel Mauricio Rico

Drug consumption in Colombia / Adriana Camacho, Alejandro Gaviria, and Catherine Rodriguez

Policies for the reduction of supply and demand

Anti-drugs policies under plan Colombia : costs, effectiveness and efficiency / Daniel Mejia

Alternative development policies in Colombia (1982-2009) / Carlos Zorro-Sanchez

Demand as a drama : the prevention and treatment of drugs use in Colombia / Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns and Maria Fernanda Vence

International relations and anti-drugs policies in Colombia

Colombia's multilateral drugs policy during the two Uribe administrations : toward prohibitionist activism in an era of detente / Sandra Borda

Colombia and Europe face the drugs problem : disagreement yet cooperation / Muriel Laurent

The role of illegal drugs in Colombian-US relations / Arlene Beth Tickner and Carolina Cepeda

Legal and institutional aspects of the war against drugs

The consumer's right to a "personal dose" and the war on drugs : a study of the policing of drug consumption in Bogota, Colombia / Julieta Lemaitre and Mauricio Albarracin

The penal treatment of narcotics trafficking and associated crimes / Manuel Iturralde and Libardo Jose Ariza

The fight against money laundering : institutions, results and disincentives / Carlos Caballero and Alfonso Amaya

Institutions and narcotics trafficking

Colombian institutions and narcotics trafficking : mutations and politics / Alvaro Camacho

Illegal crops, political participation, and institutional trust / Miguel Garcia

The failure of decentralization in the war against drugs / Juan Carlos Echeverry and Maria Paula Gomez

Violent non-state actors and narcotics trafficking in Colombia / Arlene Beth Tickner, Diego Garcia, and Catalina Arreaza.

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826520715

0826520715

9780826520722

0826520723

OCLC:

898273663