{"title":"Drug Control as an Exception in a Humane and Rational Criminal Policy in Finland","authors":"Heini Kainulainen, P. Hakkarainen","doi":"10.16993/bbo.h","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The drug policy in Finland is described as a paradox. Finland has after the Second World War actively worked for reducing the prison population to the general Nordic and West-European level. While these efforts were successful, the drug policy however developed in the opposite direction.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.h","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The drug policy in Finland is described as a paradox. Finland has after the Second World War actively worked for reducing the prison population to the general Nordic and West-European level. While these efforts were successful, the drug policy however developed in the opposite direction.