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1. The World Drug PERCEPTION Problem: Countering Prejudices About People Who Use Drugs

Author:
Global Commission On Drug Policy
Publication Date:
11-2017
Content Type:
Special Report
Institution:
Global Commission On Drug Policy
Abstract:
Drug policy reforms have been difficult to design, legislate or implement because current policies and responses are often based on perceptions and passionate beliefs, and what should be factual discussions leading to effective policies are frequently treated as moral debates. The present report aims to analyze the most common perceptions and fears, contrast them with available evidence on drugs and the people who use them, and provides recommendations on changes that must be enacted to support reforms toward more effective drug policies.
Topic:
Crime, Health, War on Drugs, Drugs, Public Health, and Criminology
Political Geography:
Global Focus

2. Advancing Drug Policy Reform: a new approach to decriminalization

Author:
Global Commission On Drug Policy
Publication Date:
07-2016
Content Type:
Special Report
Institution:
Global Commission On Drug Policy
Abstract:
Building on current partial decriminalization models that have helped to achieve more effective drug policies and positive outcomes, with a greater emphasis on justice, dignity and human rights, this report advocates ending all penalties – both civil and criminal – on people who use drugs. Detailing the destructive and harmful consequences of punitive drug policies and the need to reconsider them, the report calls for the implementation of alternatives to punishment for all low-level, non-violent actors in the drug trade, and to consider market regulation as the next logical step.
Topic:
Health, War on Drugs, Drugs, Public Health, and Criminology
Political Geography:
Global Focus

3. « Two Attitudes towards the World ». Criminology in face of Financial Illegalisms | « Deux attitudes face au monde » : La criminologie à l’épreuve des illégalismes financiers

Author:
Anthony Amicelle
Publication Date:
06-2014
Content Type:
Journal Article
Journal:
Cultures & Conflits
Institution:
Cultures & Conflits
Abstract:
Michel Foucault’s work occupies a special place in the field of criminology. While the author of Discipline and punish has been (dis)credited as a source of division between criminologists or promoted as a legitimizing basis for “another” criminology, he has often been portrayed as a figure of rupture within this research tradition. The present article aims at clarifying this idea of rupture with the foucauldian concept of “illegalisms”. This paper is intended as a reminder of the heuristic value of such a conceptual framework to shed light on the various dynamics between financial crime and social control. To do so, I discuss a number of academic studies on business crime, the social relation to tax and dirty money in order to underline the rich possibilities of the foucauldian reflection for this wide area of research. Ultimately, the articulation of those academic studies helps to better understand the numerous changes in the management of economic and financial illegalisms over past decades in France. Their articulation shows a process of conversion and adaptation of differentiation between illegalisms that (re)produces an inequality of treatment depending on the situations and the categories of population.
Topic:
Crime, Regulation, Financial Crimes, Criminology, and Michel Foucault
Political Geography:
Europe and France