Drug Offences in UK Law
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Public attitudes to the sentencing of drug offences
This article presents the findings of focus group research into public attitudes to the sentencing of drug offences. The study was commissioned by the Sentencing Council for England and Wales to in...
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Surviving the Challenge: The Constitutionality of the Drug Offences (Forfeiture of Proceeds) Act
The Drug Offences (Forfeiture of Proceeds) Act (the Act) was passed in 1994 by the Jamaican Parliament in fulfilment of its obligations under the 1988 Convention Against the Illicit Traffic in Drug...
- Drug Sentencing: What's the Deal? The New Sentencing Regime for Drug Offences
- Book Review: Misuse of Drugs and Drug Trafficking Offences
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Women, Drugs and the Death Penalty: Framing Sandiford
This article examines the impact and significance of women subject to capital punishment for drug offences. Women are subject to the death penalty for drug offences; wherever data are available the...... ... impact and significance of women subject to capital punishment for drug offences. Women are subject to the death penalty for drug offences; ... ...
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Fit for purpose: OASys assessments and parole decisions — a practitioner's view
This article is a practitioner's response to Wendy Fitzgibbon's article `Fit for Purpose: OASys Assessments and Parole Decisions' published in the March 2008 edition ...... ... The majority of these cases fell into fourmain categories of offences: violent offences, sexual offences, robbery and drugoffences. The focus ... Adynamic risk factor would be drug misuse. Risk of serious harm is a clinical(subjective) assessment. It is ... ...
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Crime and Criminal Policy in Iceland
Icelandic criminologists have classified Iceland as a country in which offences are rare. Despite an increase in crime during the 1990s, the incarceration figures are ...... ... criminologists have classified Iceland as a country in which offences are rare. Despite an increase in crime during the 1990s, the incarceration ... It will be shown that the demand for more severe punishment for drug offences is driven by utilitarian motives, whereas the arguments for ... ...
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KEY COMMENT
MoneyPolice and other fraud investigators consider that the most important source of raw money laundering intelligence is that provided by disclosures made to the National Criminal Intelligence Ser...... ... (NCIS) pursuant to, inter alia, the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Drug Traffick-ing Offences Act 1994. It is therefore instructive to ask which ... ...
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The Influence of Race and Unemployment upon Prosecution in Drug Trafficking Trials
To enhance our understanding of the impact of race in criminal trials, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton, an independent criminal justice researcher, studied numerous Crown Court prosecutions for alleged drug...... ... researcher, studied numerous Crown Court prosecutions for alleged ... drug supply offences, discovering that the case against defendants ... was conducted markedly differently according to their ethnicity, ... ...
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Vulnerability Discourses and Drug Mule Work: Legal Approaches in Sentencing and Non‐Prosecution/Non‐Punishment Norms
This article analyses the meaning of vulnerability in discourses about drug mules and couriers at a national and international level, particularly the cases of Costa Rica and England and Wales. Dra...... ... reforms and court cases, it examines how vulnerability mobilised claims for more proportionality in sentencing practices for drug offences. Vulnerabilitydiscourses also underpin claims that drug mules are trafficked persons whose culpability should be extinguished, or at least, ... ...
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