Drugs, law, and the state / edited by Harold H. Traver, Mark S. Gaylord.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Traver, Harold.

Gaylord, Mark S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug control--Cross-cultural studies.

Drug control.

Drug traffic--Cross-cultural studies.

Drug traffic.

Drug abuse--Cross-cultural studies.

Drug abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, 1992.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

5. The Chinese Laundry: International Drug Trafficking and Hong Kong's Banking Industry / Mark S. Gaylord6. The Yakuza and Amphetamine Abuse in Japan / Masayuki Tamura; 7. The Organized Crime/Drug Connection: National and International Perspectives / Ernesto U. Savona; 8. Colonial Relations and Opium Control Policy in Hong Kong, 1841-1945 / Harold H. Traver; Part III Future Directions; 9. Illegal Drugs: Where We Stand and What We Can Do / John F. Galliher; Index

Notes:

"These essays were prepared for a conference on crime, drugs, and social control that was held at the Department of Sociology of the University of Hong Kong in December 1988"--P. 2.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-70607-1

9786612706073

988-220-107-5

OCLC:

654443201