scholarly journals On the Improvement of Operations of Internal Affairs Agencies in the Area of the State Service of Issue of Certificates of Being Punished for Illegal Drug Use

Narkokontrol ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Andrey M. Panov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
The State ◽  
State Service ◽  
Illegal Drug Use ◽  
Administrative Practice ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Internal Affairs

Purpose: to show the need for improvement of the administrative activities of the internal affairs bodies in the field of drug trafficking based on the analysis of the regulatory framework which regulates the state service for the issuance of certificates on the absence of punishment for illegal drug use, the existing law enforcement practice and statistical data. Methodology: to achieve this goal, some statistical data and regulatory legal acts were analysed, and methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as a comparative legal method were used. Conclusion: the study has shown the need for increasing the efficiency of the administrative practice of the internal affairs bodies in the field of illegal drug trafficking and the need for amending the Regulations for the provision of public services for issuing certificates of no punishment for drug use. Scientific and practical significance: the use of the materials presented and analysed in the article will make it possible to increase the efficiency of the administrative practice of the internal affairs bodies in the field of illegal drug trafficking, minimising the possibility of persons who use drugs without a doctor’s prescription receiving a certificate of the absence of punishment for drug use.

scholarly journals Participation of Employees of the Penitentiary System as a Condition for Illegal Drug Trafficking in Prisons

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-276
Author(s):  
Mariya Serezhkina
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
The State ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Drug Traffic

The research featured the causes of drug traffic in prisons. The hypothesis is that this crime would be impossible without the participation of employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service. The paper introduces an analysis of statistical data on drug trafficking in Russian prisons. The statistics showed that the level of drug trafficking in prisons remains stable for the last five years, despite the ongoing anti-drug policy of the state, which confirms the abovementioned hypothesis. The study highlighted the role of an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service in various types of criminal activities related to drug trafficking in prisons. The author analyzed the legal practice of qualifying the actions of prison employees in the field of drug trafficking during their official duties and proposed to introduce uniformity in the qualification of these actions. The paper contains a comparative analysis of a Criminal Investigation Department employee engaged in drug trafficking and a citizen involved in the same crime outside the Criminal Investigation Department. The composition of crimes related to drug trafficking needs an additional qualifying feature for employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service.

Illegal drug use

1985 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-240
Author(s):  
Richard Rogers ◽  
James L. Cavanaugh
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Illegal Drug Use

The State's Developmentalist Illusion and the Origins of Illegal Coca Cultivation in Peru's Alto Huallaga Valley (1960–80)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Maritza Paredes ◽  
Hernán Manrique
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Soil Degradation ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
The State ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
State Development ◽  
Ecological Conditions ◽  
International Demand ◽  
Development Plans

Abstract The origin of illicit economies has been understood as a consequence of ‘low stateness’ (i.e. low reach of the state). Given the limited stateness in many regions, however, this article seeks to explain how only some sub-national territories have become vulnerable to illegal drug trafficking. To make this case, the representative example of the Alto Huallaga valley, in the Peruvian Amazon, is analysed. This article argues that ineffective development and settlement efforts by the Peruvian state in the Alto Huallaga, rather than the absence of the state, produced socio-ecological conditions in the region, in the late 1970s, that made it more vulnerable to the illegal economy. At the same time as international demand for illegal cocaine was expanding, two conditions resulting from frustrated state development plans came together: an enclave of poor peasants who were not self-sufficient and a natural environment impoverished by soil degradation and intensive deforestation, paradoxically not suitable for any crop except coca.

Comparing Drug Use between Welfare-Receiving Arrestees and Non-Welfare-Receiving Arrestees

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
George S. Yacoubian ◽  
Ronald J. Peters ◽  
Blake J. Urbach ◽  
Regina J. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Reform Policy ◽  
Illegal Drug Use ◽  
Urine Specimens

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) symbolized a comprehensive change to the nation's welfare system. Despite several provisions within PRWORA that focus on the use of illegal drugs, few studies have attempted to identify the prevalence of illegal drug use among welfare recipients. Moreover, no scholarly works have compared rates of drug use in welfare-receiving populations to those of non-welfare-receiving populations with an objective measure of drug use. In the current study, urine specimens were collected from 1,572 arrestees interviewed through Houston's Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program in 1999. Drug positive rates are compared between welfare-receiving arrestees ( n = 116), non-welfare receiving arrestees living below the poverty level ( n = 539), and non-welfare receiving arrestees living above the poverty level ( n = 917). Welfare-receiving arrestees were more likely to be female, older, less educated, and to test positive for opiates and benzodiazepines than the other subgroups. Implications for welfare reform policy are discussed in light of the current findings.

Does Drug Use Lower Wages?

ILR Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Gill ◽  
Robert J. Michaels
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Selection Effects ◽  
Illegal Drug Use ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Soft Drugs ◽  
Hard Drugs ◽  
Unobservable Factors

This study, using microdata from the 1980 and 1984 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, examines the effects of drug use on wages and employment. Contrary to most previous researchers' findings that illegal drug use negatively affects earnings, this analysis suggests that, once an allowance is made for self-selection effects (that is, unobservable factors simultaneously affecting wages and the decision to use drugs), drug users actually received higher wages than non-drug users. A similar analysis of employment effects shows that the sample of all drug users (which included users of “hard” and “soft” drugs) had lower employment levels than non-drug users, but the smaller sample consisting only of users of hard drugs, surprisingly, did not.

When Officials Govern

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
David Skarbek
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
Illegal Drug Use ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Prison Populations

3 shows how in Nordic counties, prison officials provide significantly more resources, more competent administration, and higher-quality governance than is found in Latin American prisons. As a result, prisoners have few reasons to spend time, energy, and resources on providing these same goods and services. The chapter goes on to show that there are few prisoner-created organizations with relatively little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, and social norms are the predominant governance mechanism in place as small prison populations make gossip and ostracism powerful tools for punishing bad behavior. Even in the sphere of illegal drug use, prisoners do not use markets to coordinate the use of resources, relying instead on a system of sharing.

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