Regulating European Drug Problems: Administrative Measures and Civil Law in the Control of Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-90-411-1058-9
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Throughout Europe there runs a vigorous debate on organised crime, municipal safety and private conduct. Drug problems and what to do about them often occupy center-stage at these debates.

Throughout the 1990s the focus of legal attention has been primarily on the criminal law. But although criminal law certainly is important as far as the development of drug controls is concerned, it is by no means the whole story. There is a parallel history, a regulatory one, consisting of the increasing use of administrative measures, some of which are directly concerned with drugs while others are more general but equally applicable.

These responses, together with civil law, variously function as adjuncts to criminal law or as alternatives to it, in relation to drug trafficking at European and national levels, drug-related public nuisance as it concerns citizens at municipal level, and drug users.

After charting existing measures in the legal orders of Member states and of the Community, Regulating European Drug Problems looks at prospects for administrative drug controls after Amsterdam--in the context of the development of the Single Market, cooperation against crime and insecurity, subsidiarity, and human rights.

At a practical level, the study offers provocative ideas to policy-makers and administrators working at the intersection of city-level, national, and European responses to drugs. For scholars and students, the book offers comparative legal research and European synthesis, and forges new links between fields of law, suppresion of organised crime, and economic and social regulation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dorn, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Part One: Exploring a Common Drug Control Space.
Introduction; N. Dorn.
2. Synthesis; N. Dorn.
Part Two: The Present Space in EC and National Laws.
3. European Community Drug Control: Internal Economic Regulation and External Conditionality; S. White.
4. Belgium: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; B. de Ruyver.
5. Denmark: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; P. Garde.
6. Finland: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; A. Kinnunen.
7. France and Spain: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; J. Castaignede.
8. Germany: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; L. Böllinger.
9. Greece: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; M. Mavris, et al.
10. Italy: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; M.L. Cesoni.
11. The Netherlands: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; T. Blom, A. Khan.
12. Portugal: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; M.P. Machado.
13. United Kingdom: Regulating Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use; G. McFarlane.
Part Three: Conclusions and Recommendations.
14. Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use: Opportunities for a Regulatory Space; N. Dorn, S. White.
15. Summary of Recommendations.
Index.