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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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Results for drug trafficking (u.k.)
2 results foundAuthor: Ruggiero, Vincenzo Title: Unintended Consequences: Changes in Organised Drug Supply in the UK Summary: This paper looks at the unintended consequences of control systems and strategies in the UK. These include: criminal black markets, policy displacement (law enforcement replaces treatment), geographical displacement, and substance displacement. Details: Santiago, Chile: Global Consortium on Security Transformation, 2010. 24p. Source: Internet Resource; Policy Brief Series, No. 11. Accessed August 10, 2010 at: http://www.securitytransformation.org/gc_publications.php Year: 2010 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.securitytransformation.org/gc_publications.php Shelf Number: 119584 Keywords: Drug Abuse and Addiction (U.K.)Drug Markets (U.K.)Drug Policy (U.K.)Drug Trafficking (U.K.) |
Author: Office of the Sentencing Council Title: Drug 'mules': twelve case studies Summary: This document describes the key features emerging from case study interviews undertaken by the Office of the Sentencing Council with a small number of women imprisoned for unlawful importation of drugs: many acting as drug ‘mules’. This work focused on women in response to documented concerns over the circumstances that may lead to the offending, the roles they tend to play in these types of offences and the impact of imprisonment on women and their families, particularly those with caring responsibilities. These issues have been raised specifically in relation to foreign national prisoners, with stories of women living in poverty who either need the money generated through carrying drugs, or are coerced into it, and for whom imprisonment may be particularly difficult, given their location in a different country and language and cultural differences. The aim of the interviews with the women involved in this exercise was therefore to discuss the background and circumstances leading up to their offence, their reactions to the sentence they received and the impact this has had on their lives and that of their families: essentially we wanted the women to ‘tell their story’ (seeAppendix A for these accounts) - to provide a greater insight and understanding into some of the potential reasons for involvement in these offences and to highlight the type of roles they may play. The information generated through this work has helped inform the Sentencing Council’s development of a draft sideline on sentencing drug offences and has complemented a larger research study recently undertaken, examining public attitudes to the sentencing of drug offences more generally. Details: United Kingdom: Office of the Sentencing Council, 2011. 23p. Source: Analysis and Research Bulletin. Internet Resource: Accessed on January 23, 2012 at http://sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk/docs/Drug_mules_bulletin.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk/docs/Drug_mules_bulletin.pdf Shelf Number: 123758 Keywords: Case StudiesDrug Trafficking (U.K.)Female OffendersImprisonment |