{"title":"Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs: A Case of Methamphetamine","authors":"Bakhtear Talukdar","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2314750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2314750","url":null,"abstract":"This paper tries to address the effectiveness of government intervention in illicit drug markets, specifically taking methamphetamine as a representative and widely abused drug. We have meticulously consulted the paper by Dobkin and Nicosia (2009) who found that government intervention in pre-cursor meth market temporarily jeopardized the meth supply and consequently reduced purity and increased price for a very short span of time. We went beyond this finding and tried to explore why government intervention or so called “war-on-drugs” may be ineffective through analyzing the relationship between meth price and purity. We have found that methamphetamine has a strong complementarity with other illicit drugs specially heroin and powdered cocaine. It works like a person switching frequently between tea and coffee in a day, instead of mixing tea with coffee. Therefore, we conclude that in order to ensure the effectiveness of government’s drug monitoring programs, the drug market needs to be controlled or monitored in whole instead of just trying to fix a part of the whole.","PeriodicalId":165936,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Security & Safety (Topic)","volume":"352 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121703059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tapestries on Policing: Foreword","authors":"C. Shearing","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2757669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2757669","url":null,"abstract":"It is indeed a pleasure for me to see this volume on the Global Environment of Policing come to fruition. The essays that make it up provide a very welcome window through which readers are invited to explore policing within different geographic locations through the eyes of both practitioners and academics.","PeriodicalId":165936,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Security & Safety (Topic)","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123324009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tear in the Social Fabric: Communities Dealing with Socially Generated Crises","authors":"A. Enander, Örjan Lajksjö, E. Tedfeldt","doi":"10.1111/j.1468-5973.2009.00596.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5973.2009.00596.x","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the study was to develop knowledge about demands and experiences relating to management of socially generated crises in local communities. Interviews were conducted in four municipalities with experiences of such situations, e.g., widely publicized murders, suicides or cases of sexual abuse. A modified grounded theory analysis of the interviews identified six central themes. Two themes pertained to the actual event and its consequences; two concerned the management of the crisis; and two themes focused on reactions and needs among those involved. Basic tensions were identified between confidentiality and openness, between support and accountability and between empathy and distancing. Similarities and differences in relation to management of other kinds of crises are discussed.","PeriodicalId":165936,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Security & Safety (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115465893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Household Shocks on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Tanzania","authors":"Olukorede Abiona, M. Koppensteiner","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3301756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3301756","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the effects of household shocks on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) using a unique set of microdata from the World Bank’s Living Standard Measurement Survey for Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall as an exogenous shock to Tanzanian households and control for a large set of potential confounding variables on the individual, household and community levels, while exploiting intra-and inter-community rainfall variation for identification. We find that rainfall shocks substantially increase the likelihood of the DV incidence in the household. A one standard deviation negative rainfall shock increases the incidence of domestic violence by about 18.8 percentage points compared to baseline for wives. We furthermore show that rainfall shocks have an effect on physical violence, while we do not find an effect on severe physical or sexual abuse, which is consistent with the strategic use of violence. Estimates from non-linear specifications reveal that the overall effects are driven by droughts rather than floods. We furthermore show that effects are more pronounced for poorer households. In addition, we also provide evidence that female empowerment mitigates the impact of rainfall shocks on violence","PeriodicalId":165936,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Security & Safety (Topic)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123092799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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