Items tagged with proportionality
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| Marijuana decriminalization law brings down juvenile arrests in California [25.11.2012] | Marijuana is one of the primary reasons why California experienced a stunning 20 percent drop in juvenile arrests in just one year, between 2010 and ... |
| Drug sentences now make more sense [19.11.2012] | The underlying aim of The Sentencing Council's new guideline for drug offences in England and Wales is to ensure sentences are consistent and the pun ... |
| The Death Penalty for Drug Offences [19.11.2012] | Executions for drug offences have escalated in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia against a trend towards abolition globally, reveals a new Harm ... |
| Disproportionate penalties for drug offenses in Mexico [11.11.2012] | The story of the Mexican drug war has generally focused on the violence perpetrated by drug cartels and the apparent inability to bring so many crimi ... |
| Drugs, crime and punishment [19.06.2012] | Proportionality is one of the key principles of the rule of law aiming to protect people from cruel or inhumane treatment. The principle has been est ... |
| 'Bolletjesslikker opsluiten zinloos' [15.06.2012] | Bolletjesslikkers horen niet in de gevangenis. Het berechten en opsluiten van ongeveer vijftienhonderd kleine drugssmokkelaars per jaar heeft geen no ... |
| Dope smokers face fines but no court procedure [04.06.2012] | The Swiss Parliament has agreed in principle to impose a fine on consumers of small amounts of cannabis instead of opening a mandatory criminal proce ... |
| Majority relaxed about cannabis use [21.05.2012] | More than half of Australians support reduced legal penalties for use of drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy, an analysis of a federal government surv ... |
| New York police officers defy order to cut marijuana arrests [29.03.2012] | Police officers in New York are "manufacturing" criminal offenses by forcing people with small amounts of marijuana to reveal their drugs, according ... |
| The war on the truth about drugs [24.01.2012] | What's the smallest unit of celebration? A whooplet? I need one to mark the news that sentencing for drug offences, in some cases, will be shortened. ... |
| Drugs mule terms cut in new sentencing guidelines [24.01.2012] | People who smuggle drugs will face more lenient sentences if they have been exploited, under new guidelines. The change in approach on "drug mules" f ... |
| Drug guidelines suggest lighter sentences for 'social dealers' [24.01.2012] | Recreational drug users who naively buy small quantities to share with their friends could avoid jail under sentencing guidelines for drug offences. ... |
| Justices to Decide on Fairness in Drug Sentences [28.11.2011] | The Supreme Court agreed to resolve a question that has vexed the lower federal courts since Congress enacted a law to narrow the gap between sentenc ... |
| The punishment must fit the crime, even for drug users [02.11.2011] | The case of the Australian boy arrested on drug charges in Bali offers the opportunity to review our nation's own response to drug use, both here and ... |
| Congress on Speed [01.11.2011] | If Congress were functioning properly, it would take the time to consider the many potential improvements in drug policy that could save lives by pre ... |
| 'Legal highs' [21.10.2011] | This paper aims to set out some of the policy and public health issues raised by the appearance of a wide range of emergent psychoactive substances o ... |
| Federal judge rules Florida drug law unconstitutional [29.07.2011] | A federal judge has declared Florida's drug law unconstitutional, potentially throwing thousands of criminal cases into jeopardy. U.S. District Judge ... |
| A Call to Shift Policy on Marijuana [14.06.2011] | More people are arrested in New York City on charges of possessing small amounts of marijuana than on any other crime on the books. Nearly all are bl ... |
| Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of 'Total War on Drugs' [08.06.2011] | "Sending more people to prison will not reduce drug addiction or improve public health," said Anya Sarang, president of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, ... |
| Global Commission on Drug Policy Report [02.06.2011] | The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of ... |
| Drugs and the law: state of confusion [02.06.2011] | Forty years after the introduction of the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act, more than 2.8 million people report using illicit drugs every year in England and ... |
| Response from IDPC to the Sentencing Council for England and Wales Consultation on the Drug Offences Guideline [01.06.2011] | The Sentencing Council for England and Wales initiated a consultation process in order to produce definitive sentencing guidelines for drugs offences ... |
| Conviction by Numbers [27.05.2011] | Threshold quantities (TQs) for drug law and policy are being experimented with across many jurisdictions. States seem attracted to their apparent sim ... |
| Expert Seminar on Proportionality of Sentencing for Drug Offences [20.05.2011] | There has in recent years been a renewed interest in the principle of proportionality in sentencing policy for drug offences. There has been official ... |
| Pot Penalties May Be Modernized [18.05.2011] | Sponsored by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, AB 1017 aims to give prosecutors more discretion in how they charge weed growers and processors, ... |
| Controlling and Regulating Drugs [03.05.2011] | The New Zealand Law Commission was asked to address the efficacy of the Misuse of Drugs Act in reducing the demand for, and supply of, drugs prohibit ... |
| Review drags drug law into 21st Century [03.05.2011] | New Zealand’s 35-year-old Misuse of Drugs Act should be consigned to the rubbish heap of history and replaced with a modern, flexible, health-focusse ... |
| The Obama Administration’s drug control policy on auto-pilot [29.04.2011] | In a widely watched You Tube video, U.S. President Barack Obama is asked whether or not the drug war may in fact be counterproductive. Instead of the ... |
| Jeremy Sare on drug sentencing [18.04.2011] | Most drug users are not addicted. Most suppliers of drugs are not dealers. These central truths about patterns of drug use in Britain are incompatibl ... |
| Alternatives to Imprisonment [01.04.2011] | The Sentencing Advisory Council has released a report on community attitudes towards the use of alternatives to imprisonment in Victoria. The report ... |
| Drug sentencing public consultation launched [28.03.2011] | A public consultation on the sentencing of drugs offenders in England and Wales has been launched. The consultation, launched by the Sentencing Counc ... |
| Addicted to Courts [22.03.2011] | America’s growing reliance on drug courts is an ineffective allocation of scarce state resources. Drug courts can needlessly widen the net of crimina ... |
| Drug Courts Are Not the Answer [21.03.2011] | Drug Courts are Not the Answer finds that drug courts are an ineffective and inappropriate response to drug law violations. Many, all the way up to t ... |
| Supreme Court decision on sentencing guidelines gives judges more leeway [14.03.2011] | Jason Pepper, a former meth addict and drug dealer from the heartland, says he got lucky when he was finally arrested. A sympathetic judge gave him a ... |
| The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
| Human Rights and Drug Policy [30.11.2010] | In many countries around the world, drug control efforts result in serious human rights abuses: torture and ill treatment by police, mass incarcerati ... |
| Bigger welfare state 'reduces hard drug use' [02.11.2010] | Reducing the use of drugs would be better tackled by having a bigger welfare state, rather than criminalising addicts, according to research. The wor ... |
| Black people six times more likely to face drug arrest [31.10.2010] | Black people are six times more likely to be arrested than white people for drug offences and 11 times more likely to be imprisoned, according to new ... |
| UN expert calls for a fundamental shift in global drug control policy [26.10.2010] | At a press conference in New York on Tuesday 26 October, 2010, at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, one of the UN’s key human ... |
| Drug Law Reform: Lessons from the New Zealand Experience [19.08.2010] | In 2007, the Government of New Zealand entrusted an independent agency, the National Law Commission, to review the country’s drug law. The Commission ... |
| Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health [06.08.2010] | The current international system of drug control has focused on creating a drug-free world, almost exclusively through use of law enforcement policie ... |
| Obama Signs Drug Parity Law [04.08.2010] | President Obama signed legislation on Tuesday reducing sentencing disparities between those caught with crack and those arrested with powder cocaine. ... |
| A Matter of Substance [26.07.2010] | This paper discusses the “substance-oriented approach” Dutch authorities implemented to to scare off potential small-scale cocaine smugglers. The foc ... |
| Sentencing for Drug Offences in England and Wales [09.06.2010] | Sentencing for drug offences in England and Wales has recently undergone a wide-sweeping review and public consultation. The purpose of this report i ... |
| IDPC Drug Policy Guide [01.03.2010] | This is the second edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide aimed at national government policy makers. This publication is a collaborative effort by a ... |
| Sentencing for Drug Offences [01.03.2010] | In determining the seriousness of a drug offence the courts should focus on the quantity of the drug involved (or the scale of the operation) and the ... |
| Trends in Drug Law Reform in Europe and Latin America [26.01.2010] | This presentation gives a short overview of legislative reforms in Europe and Latin America that provide lessons learned in practice about less punit ... |
| Drug offences: sentencing and other outcomes [01.11.2009] | The sentences that offenders receive for drug law violations across the European Union are examined for the first time in this ‘Selected issue’. By a ... |
| Legislative Innovation in Drug Policy [01.11.2009] | This briefing summarizes good practices in legislative reforms around the world, representing steps away from a repressive zero-tolerance model towar ... |
| Drug Decriminalization: A Trend Takes Shape [21.09.2009] | The trend of "drug decriminalization" is quickly taking shape in Latin America. Increasingly, many countries are leaning toward decriminalization as ... |
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