DRUG TRAFFICKING

Drug Trafficking

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion and Analysis3

Findings4

Conclusion5

References6

Drug Trafficking

Introduction

The relationship between drug problems and politics in modern times have been studied from points of view many and varied. However, there are very few studies dealing with the perspective of social science on public policy of the largest world power in terms of illegal drugs. The present work aims to fill that void start by providing a brief overview of the relationship between social science research and policy known as "controlled drugs" (drug control) the United States of America.

Thesis statement

Socio-cultural Impact of Drug Trafficking and drug abuse among youth in the inner city.

Discussion and Analysis

Since 1980, the United States have built more prisons and incarcerated more people than at any other time in their history. Despite this massive investment at the federal and state levels - who gave birth, according to some journalists and researchers, a "complex carcéro-industrial" or a "gulag Western" - the American criminal justice system is congested. Prison conditions are often poor and led to abuses of Human Rights denounced repeatedly by NGOs such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (Dorn, 1992).

While it stresses that "while crime in general continues to decline, arrests for violations of federal laws on drugs reach an unprecedented scale," the Government refers to the prodigious American prison statistics under the "consequences in terms of crime "of" the drug problem in America "and says that" many crimes are committed under the influence of drugs or may have reason to need to find money to buy drugs ".A kilo of cocaine sells for about 50 times more expensive in the U.S. and Europe in Colombia and Mexico, said the minister, Genaro García Luna, at an international forum on insecurity in Ciudad Juarez, the city's most murderous of Mexico. "The cost of a kilo of ...