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A five page paper which looks at drugs and criminality, the underlying social and economic issues relating to drug culture, and the ways in which the criminal justice system might deal with these. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLdrugcrim.rtf
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The issue of drug policy with regard to criminal justice is a complex one, not only because of the inextricable link between drug abuse and criminality, but also
because of the social and ethical issues surrounding drug use in general and the changing public perception of the acceptability of drugs. Whilst it is generally accepted that there is
a clear distinction between drug use which is legal and socially acceptable and that which is not - the difference between alcohol and cigarettes, and heroin and crack cocaine, for
example - there is also a considerable grey area where the distinction is not quite so evident. Moves towards the decriminalisation of cannabis, for instance, have meant that the substance
is increasingly seen as having social acceptability in many areas, rather than being classed alongside hard drugs which are still closely associated with organised crime.
It is also the case that the drugs industry permeates all levels of the socio-economic
spectrum; street use is linked to social disadvantage and small-scale crime, whereas at the other end of the scale, those involved in the large scale manufacture and distribution of drugs
tend to have sufficient social and economic power to transcend even law enforcement agencies themselves. If profits from the drug industry are sufficient to allow drug traffickers to exert political
control, then it is virtual impossible for the criminal justice system to act effectively against them.
The way in which policies will be developed, and the success with which they are enforced, will therefore tend to vary from country to
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