Necessary, sufficient and contributory factors generating illegal economic activity, and specifically drug-related activity, in Colombia

Thoumi, Francisco E.

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dc.creator	Thoumi, Francisco E.
dc.date	2014-06-11
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-29T18:02:09Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-29T18:02:09Z
dc.identifier	http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/750
dc.identifier	10.18441/ibam.9.2009.35.105-126
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/149723
dc.description	The international drug control regime is formulated under a basic paradigm: all drugs included in the convention schedules I, II and IV can only have medical and research uses. The policies derived from these conventions forbid all recreational, ritual, experimental, or self-medicating consumption of coca, cocaine, opium, heroin, marijuana and many other drugs. The conventions allow the production of controlled drugs for medical and research uses and criminalize all other production. Where consumption is concerned they are less rigid, as users of illegal drugs do not have to be arrested or jailed. Anti-drug policies seek to suppress both illicit drug supply and demand but are formulated without clearly spelling out the reasons why there is a demand and a supply for illegal drugs. To understand illegal drug demand and supply it is necessary to have clear answers to fundamental criminological questions such as: Why do people commit crimes? Or why some individuals contravene formal or informal norms while others do not? Policymakers, however, do not hesitate to formulate and implement anti-drug policies without having first considered those questions. They proceed as if their answers were obvious or known. Yet, when asked about the reasons why the illegal drugs industry develops in a location, most answers are highly questionable and at best partially right. The aim of this essay is to show this using Colombia as an example.	es-ES
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin)	es-ES
dc.relation	http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/750/433
dc.source	IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal; Vol. 9 No. 35 (2009); 105-126	en-US
dc.source	IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal; Vol. 9 Núm. 35 (2009); 105-126	es-ES
dc.source	2255-520X
dc.source	1577-3388
dc.source	10.18441/ibam.9.2009.35
dc.subject	Illegal Activity	es-ES
dc.subject	Drugs Industry	es-ES
dc.subject	Anti-drug Policies	es-ES
dc.subject	Colombia	es-ES
dc.subject	20th Century	es-ES
dc.title	Necessary, sufficient and contributory factors generating illegal economic activity, and specifically drug-related activity, in Colombia	es-ES
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion