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Anti-drug policies in Colombia : successes, failures, and wrong turns
Políticas antidroga en Colombia. English
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"This book compiles the most up-to-date research and evidence on the different dimensions of drugs and drugs policy in Colombia, a country that has done everything possible to fight illicit drug pr...
"This book compiles the most up-to-date research and evidence on the different dimensions of drugs and drugs policy in Colombia, a country that has done everything possible to fight illicit drug production and trafficking"--
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- Creator
- edited by Alejandro Gaviria and Daniel Mejia ; translated by Jimmy Weiskopf
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- English
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- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2016]
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- xi, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780826520715, 0826520715, 9780826520722, 0826520723, 9780826520739
- OCLC
- ocn898273663
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Dimension of the drugs problem in Colombia : production, trafficking and consumption -- The microeconomics of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia / Daniel Mejia and Daniel Mauricio Rico -- Drug consumption in Colombia / Adriana Camacho, Alejandro Gaviria, and Catherine Rodriguez -- Policies for the reduction of supply and demand -- Anti-drugs policies under plan Colombia : costs, effectiveness and efficiency / Daniel Mejia -- Alternative development policies in Colombia (1982-2009) / Carlos Zorro-Sanchez -- Demand as a drama : the prevention and treatment of drugs use in Colombia / Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns and Maria Fernanda Vence -- International relations and anti-drugs policies in Colombia -- Colombia's multilateral drugs policy during the two Uribe administrations : toward prohibitionist activism in an era of detente / Sandra Borda -- Colombia and Europe face the drugs problem : disagreement yet cooperation / Muriel Laurent -- The role of illegal drugs in Colombian-US relations / Arlene Beth Tickner and Carolina Cepeda -- Legal and institutional aspects of the war against drugs -- The consumer's right to a "personal dose" and the war on drugs : a study of the policing of drug consumption in Bogota, Colombia / Julieta Lemaitre and Mauricio Albarracin -- The penal treatment of narcotics trafficking and associated crimes / Manuel Iturralde and Libardo Jose Ariza -- The fight against money laundering : institutions, results and disincentives / Carlos Caballero and Alfonso Amaya -- Institutions and narcotics trafficking -- Colombian institutions and narcotics trafficking : mutations and politics / Alvaro Camacho -- Illegal crops, political participation, and institutional trust / Miguel Garcia -- The failure of decentralization in the war against drugs / Juan Carlos Echeverry and Maria Paula Gomez -- Violent non-state actors and narcotics trafficking in Colombia / Arlene Beth Tickner, Diego Garcia, and Catalina Arreaza