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The world heroin market : can supply be cut? /
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. Part I: The Development, Composition and Behavior of the World Opiate Market. 2. The Past as Prologue: The Development of the World Opiate Market and Rise of the International Control Regime. 3. 4. Did the Taliban's Ban Really Matter?. 5. Keeping Track of Opia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Studies in crime and public policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- Prior research
- Data collection and model development
- Major findings
- Book outline
- pt. I. The development, composition and behavior of the world opiate market
- 2. The past as prologue : the development of the world opiate market And rise of the international control regime
- Introduction
- Production and consumption, 1800-1909
- Development and impact of the international drug control regime, 1909-1945
- Rise and impact of national controls, 1906-1945
- Downslide and upswing, 1945-1970, and a brief coda
- Concluding remarks
- 3. The contemporary market
- Introduction
- Current conditions and market trends
- Properties of supply and demand
- Supply control policies
- Concluding remarks
- 4. Did the Taliban's ban really matter?
- Introduction
- The ban, the cutback, and the aftermath
- The market response
- Concluding remarks
- 5. Keeping track of opiates flows
- Introduction
- An outline of the approach
- Data compilation
- Data reconciliation
- Trafficking routes and opiate flows
- Concluding remarks
- pt. II. Country studies
- 6. Afghanistan and Burma : the two dominant producers
- Introduction
- In search of an explanation
- Afghanistan : from quasi-state authorities to protectors within the state?
- Burma : a succession of quasi-state authorities
- Concluding remarks
- 7. India : diversion from licit cultivation
- Introduction
- Opiate consumption
- Illicit sources of opiates
- Diversion from licit production and its share of the illicit market
- Heroin production, trafficking and export
- Concluding remarks
- 8. Colombia : the emergence of a new producer
- Introduction
- Background : cocaine, insurgents and government weakness
- The emergence of the opiate industry
- Opium production and processing
- The industry players and their relationships
- Control efforts
- Consumption
- Concluding remarks
- 9. Tajikistan : the rise of a narco-state
- Introduction
- The expansion of the illicit opiate industry : explanatory factors
- The phases of trafficking
- Tajikistan's integration into the world heroin market
- The rapid growth of local opiate consumption
- Drug-trafficking enterprises
- Concluding remarks
- pt. III. Policy analysis and implications
- 10. The theoretical and practical consequences of variations in effective illegality
- Introduction
- The consequences of strict enforcement
- The consequences of lax enforcement
- The consequences of non-enforcement
- Two theses on the role of governments in opiate markets
- Concluding remarks
- 11. Synthesis of findings and lessons for policy making
- Findings on the world opiate market
- Suggestions for leveraging limited policy opportunities
- Possible futures for international drug policy
- Appendix A. Legal production of opium
- Appendix B. Average consumption and purity
- Appendix C. Central Asia : trafficking revenues and economic dependency
- Appendix D. Examples of countries with lax enforcement
- Notes
- References
- Index.