Troublesome Boomerang: Illicit Drug Policy and Security

Security Dialogue

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 287-299

  Seccombe, Ralph ^a  

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EID: 0006740428     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010697028003004     Document Type: Article

References (37)

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27. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), New York, 25-27 June 1996.
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32. Graham Farrell, Kashfia Mansur & Melissa Tullis, 'Cocaine and Heroin in Europe 1983-93: A Cross-national Comparison of Trafficking and Prices', British Journal of Criminology, vol. 36, no. 2, Spring 1996, pp. 255, 279; the article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations.
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35. Tokatlian, note 9, p. 78.
36. For a valuable guide to harm minimization, see Alex Wodak & Ron Owens, Drug Prohibition: A Call for Change (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1996).
37. Wodak & Owens, note 35, p. 61.