segundo ocorrências e massa [Drug Seizures in the State of São Paulo: An In-Depth View of Drug Seizures Broken Down by Number … of Incidents and Drug Amounts], conducted by Instituto Sou da Paz to encourage a discussion about Brazil’s drug policy …. The study focuses on drug incidents in the state of São Paulo, the richest and most populous in Brazil, which accounts for …

centered on punitive and militarized responses towards the drug problem - during the first and second halves of the twentieth …

narcotic drug policies on policing and incarceration at the expense of urgently needed investment in health and social services …, mostly in the European Union, highlights that bringing public health evidence into the center of drug policy decision …While it is common for United Nations member states in international meetings to espouse ‘public health approaches’ to …

Sentencing for drug offenses in England and Wales has recently undergone a widesweeping review and public consultation … been issued which, if adopted, will radically change sentencing in the courts for many drug offenses, and particularly in … the case of drug-couriers. The purpose of this report is to examine and evaluate this mechanism for law reform, without …

The number of prisoners incarcerated on drug-related offenses rose fifteen-fold between 1980 and 2000. This paper … increase in drug prisoners led to reductions in expected time served for other crimes, especially for less serious offenses …. Reductions in time served, however, increased other crimes by no more than a few percent. Moreover, incarcerating drug offenders …