Australian threshold quantities for 'drug trafficking' : are they placing drug users at risk of unjustified sanction?

Australian threshold quantities for 'drug trafficking' : are they placing drug users at risk of unjustified sanction?

Legal threshold quantities for drug trafficking - 'trafficking' as opposed to 'personal use' - evaluation of Australian legal threshold quantities to see if drug users are at risk of exceeding personal use thresholds - results show there is some risk - authors suggest reforms tha...

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Veröffentlicht in:Trends and issues in crime and criminal justice 2014-03 (467), p.1-7
Hauptverfasser: Hughes, Caitlin, Ritter, Alison, Cowdery, Nicholas, Phillips, Benjamin
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Analysis
Criminology
Drug abuse
Drug dealing
Drug traffic
Drug trafficking
Fines & penalties
Imprisonment
Narcotics, Control of
Sanctions
User statistics
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Zusammenfassung:Legal threshold quantities for drug trafficking - 'trafficking' as opposed to 'personal use' - evaluation of Australian legal threshold quantities to see if drug users are at risk of exceeding personal use thresholds - results show there is some risk - authors suggest reforms that may mitigate risks and increase capacity to capture Australian drug traffickers.
ISSN:0817-8542
1836-2206