Assessing the concordance between illicit drug laws on the books and drug law enforcement: Comparison of three states on the continuum from “decriminalised” to “punitive”

International Journal of Drug Policy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2017, Pages 148-157

  Belackova, Vendula ^a,b   Ritter, Alison ^a   Shanahan, Marian ^a   Hughes, Caitlin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Comparative analysis; Illicit drug laws; Law enforcement; Policy analysis

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; ILLICIT DRUG; STREET DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURT; CRIME; CZECH REPUBLIC; DECRIMINALIZATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLORIDA; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; LAW; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICE; POLICY; CANNABIS SMOKING; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG LEGISLATION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CZECH REPUBLIC; FLORIDA; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGISLATION, DRUG; MARIJUANA SMOKING; NEW SOUTH WALES; POLICE; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 85012008532     PISSN: 09553959     EISSN: 18734758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.12.013     Document Type: Article

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