Mexico’s Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction. By Nathan P.Jones. Pp. xiv, 194, Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, 2016, £17.77.

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 932-932
Author(s):  
Patrick Madigan
Keyword(s):  
Illicit Drug ◽  
The State ◽  
Georgetown University ◽  
Drug Networks

scholarly journals Features of Qualification and Prevention of Smuggling of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances: their Precursors or Analogues

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (Especial II) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khayrullina Rezeda Gazinurovna ◽  
Kravchenko Olga Dmitrievna ◽  
Tobolskaya Victoria Valerievna ◽  
Nedorezova Olga Yuryevna
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
The State ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Psychotropic Substances ◽  
State Revenue ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Illicit Trafficking ◽  
Illicit Drug Trafficking ◽  
Narcotic Drugs

The article is dedicated to the consideration of factors influencing the state of the situation in Russia in the field of detection and repression of the smuggling of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors, and analogues. In the methodological field it is an analytical research based on documentary, close to legal hermeneutics. Specifically, thearticle analyses Russian legislation, offers options to solve problems in the field of smuggling narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors, and analogues. The authors consider the real problems of countering the drug threat, which is currently a serious obstacle to the development of the state. By way of concluding the nature and magnitude of the negative consequences, illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors, and analogues can be classified as direct threats to national security. Today, the issues of countering the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs, using modern information technologies, improving mechanisms to convert goods obtained from illicit drug trafficking into state revenue are relevant.

Fear and Loathing in Central America

2020 ◽  
pp. 295-306
Author(s):  
Russell Crandall
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Central America ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
The State ◽  
Drug Trade ◽  
Economic Action ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
The World

This chapter begins with Nils Gilman's seminal essay “The Twin Insurgency,” stating that gangs aim to carve out de facto zones of autonomy for themselves by crippling the state's ability to constrain their freedom of economic action. It talks about gangsters in Latin America that took advantage of the vulnerability of the states they operated in to such a degree that they frequently became shadow powers. It also details how gangs terrorized their host societies, using corruption, extortion, and bullets as their weapons of choice. The chapter cites the statistics that emphasized that the most violent cities in the world were in Latin America, clarifying that the statistics were a result of the impunity enjoyed by the region's criminal organizations, primarily those with ties to the illicit drug trade. It discusses how drug gangs often served as the de facto administrator of social services in slums, where the state failed to provide much of anything.

Problems and Challenges of the echr’s Extraterritorial Application to Law-Enforcement Operations at Sea

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 445-473
Author(s):  
Marta Szuniewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
European Court ◽  
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction ◽  
Illicit Drug Trafficking

Recently the European Court of Human Rights has been challenged with questions concerning the scope of the State’s responsibility for violations of human rights that occurred on international waters. The complaints concern the international fight on illicit drug trafficking, piracy and illegal immigration. The analysed case law provides that occurrences on international waters constitute cases of extraterritorial jurisdiction and may engage responsibility of the State under the echr in the events that take place on board a vessel flying its flag (jurisdiction de iure) and in case of occurrences that happen on board foreign vessels, if the State exercises an effective control over a ship or its crew (jurisdiction de facto). Unfortunately, the Court’s findings prove difficult to follow in a few points as the judges applied the Strasboaurg standard too strictly, irrespective of the practical challenges of maritime law-enforcement operations and existing institutions of the law of the sea.

scholarly journals P7: Epidemiological aspects of HIV infection among illicit drug users in the State of Piauí, Northeast Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2(Suppl 1)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliveira Evaldo ◽  
Silva Letiano ◽  
Lima Verde Roseane ◽  
Aragão Ana Luisa ◽  
Castro Jairo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Illicit Drug Users

scholarly journals The Rescuing of Muslim Anthropological Thought

1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-320
Author(s):  
A. Muhammad Ma'ruf
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
New Era ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Anthropology Of Islam ◽  
Georgetown University

Akbar S. Ahmed, Toward Islamic Anthropology: Definition, Dogma, andDirections, Islamization of Knowledge series (2) New Era Publications/InternationalInstitute of Islamic Thought 1976, 77 pp.Talal Asad, The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam, Center for contemporaryArab studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 1986, 22 pp.I. The Malaise and its RemedyBoth of these scholarly publications may be seen as statements of the needfor Islamic anthropology. They contain expressions of the discontent of Muslinanthropologists with the state of the art of contemporary anthropological studies.Many Muslim anthropologists and other social scientists share in the feelingsevident in these essays and well stated in the late Dr. Ali Shari'ati's Civilizationand modernization:When I feel my own religion, literature, emotion, needs and painsthrough my awn culture, I feel my own self, the very social and historical ...

Cannabis: Innovation Opportunities for its Medical Use

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-223
Author(s):  
Gerardo Angulo-Cuentas ◽  
José Ramírez-Vergara ◽  
Maryuris Charris-Polo
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Heterocyclic Compounds ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Cannabis Sativa ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Therapeutic Use ◽  
The State ◽  
Innovative Activity ◽  
Novel Studies ◽  
Impact Indicators

Background: Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug worldwide. Although cannabis can be considered a malignant drug that affects health and produces adverse effects on individuals, their families and society, it should be noted that therapeutic use has a scientific basis. Objective: This study was carried out through a joint methodology that included both the analysis of patents and scientometrics, with the purpose of constructing a profile for the scientific, inventive and innovative activity of marijuana in medical uses. Methodology: The analyses included indicators based on information about the publication and registration of scientific articles and patents, as well as impact indicators measured by the citations of the related publications, facilitating the establishment and understanding of the trends that were identified. Results: As a result, it was intended to establish the state of the technologies, processes and research of this subject to determine whether it is in a state of growth maturity or decline. Additionally, ideas for novel studies are proposed, and information about countries, offices, authors and reference journals is shown to serve as a base for innovators, entrepreneurs and new researchers. Conclusion: The main contribution of this article is the identification of companies and leading applicants in the medical use of cannabis, mainly in the formulation of medical preparations, treatments using these preparations, and heterocyclic compounds present in the Cannabis Sativa plant. Also, potential markets for the protection of inventions in the field are presented, and a review of outstanding articles and patents that can be used to know in depth the interests of the main applicants.

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