U.S. Drug Policy and Supply-Side Strategies: Assessing Effectiveness and Results

Q3 Social Sciences

Norteamerica Pub Date : 2015-07-01 DOI:10.20999/nam.2015.b002

Michelle Keck (Assistant professor) , Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (Associate professor and chair)

引用次数: 8

Abstract

The illegal drug trade in North America continues to prosper despite a 45-year war on drugs. Border enforcement is a key U.S. policy tool for preventing the flow of illegal drugs, and the U.S.-Mexico border has become the frontline in the war. Several scholars have questioned the ability of states, with their inflexible bureaucracies, tight budgets, and electorates, to effectively stop drug trafficking networks, which have considerable advantages, including flexibility, transnational connections, and market forces on their side. This article uses statistical data to determine if border enforcement along the southern U.S. border influences the illegal drug supply.

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美国毒品政策和供应方战略:评估有效性和结果

尽管进行了45年的禁毒战争，北美的非法毒品交易仍在继续繁荣。边境执法是美国防止非法毒品流动的关键政策工具，美墨边境已成为这场战争的前线。一些学者质疑政府的能力，由于其僵化的官僚机构，紧张的预算和选民，有效地阻止毒品贩运网络，这有相当大的优势，包括灵活性，跨国联系和市场力量在他们一边。本文使用统计数据来确定沿美国南部边境的边境执法是否影响非法毒品供应。

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Norteamerica Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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0.50

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审稿时长

20 weeks

期刊介绍： Editorial Policies Focus and Scope Section Policies Peer Review Process Open Access Policy Archiving General Criteria Ethical Guidelines Directory Indexing Editorial Bodies Editorial Board International Advisory Board Focus and Scope Norteamérica is a semiannual peer-reviewed journal regarding multi and interdisciplinary academic studies about the North America region (Mexico, United States and Canada) which consider the region itself as an object of study, along with its evolution, its individual processes and internal dynamics. An analysis of the reality of each of the three nations is thematically linked with the rest of the region. 1.- Norteamérica will publish exclusively multi- and interdisciplinary academic studies focused on the North American region (Mexico, the United States and Canada) that: a) address the region as an object of analysis: specifically, its evolution, particular processes, and internal dynamics; b) analyze the reality in each of the three nations, linking them thematically with the rest of the region; c) carry out comparative studies of the nations of North America; d) address the region and its insertion in the international context; and e) expand upon international processes and their impact within the region. 2.- Through these research perspectives, the journal will disseminate articles addressing a wide variety of general and specific issues: a) politics, economics, society and culture; b) foreign policy, trade, political systems, security, comparative politics, political philosophy and history; and c) migration, electoral processes, borders, science and technology, minorities, the environment and natural resources, education, human rights, gender, and others.