Human Rights and Drug Control

A New Perspective

Melissa Bone (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-08717-7 (ISBN)

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This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally - to change the way in which we think about drug control issues.

This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally – to change the way in which we think about drug control issues.

The prohibitionist approach towards tackling the ‘drugs problem’ is not working. The laws and mentality that see drugs as the problem and tries to fight them, makes the ‘drugs problem’ worse. While the law is the best-placed mechanism to regulate our actions in relation to particular drugs, this book argues against the stranglehold of the criminal law, and instead presents a human rights perspective to change the way we think about drug control issues. Part I develops a conceptual framework for human rights in the context of drug control – philosophically, politically and legally – and applies this to the domestic (UK) and international drug control system. Part II focuses on case law to illustrate both the potential and the limitations of successfully applying this unique perspective in practice. The conclusion points towards a bottom-up process for drug policy which is capable of reconfiguring the mentality of prohibition.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights, criminal law, criminology, politics and socio-legal studies.

Melissa L. Bone, Lecturer, Law, University of Leicester

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of international instruments

Table of international documents

Table of national legislation and documents

Table of cases

Acknowledgements

Dedication

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Developing a human rights perspective

The origin and value of human rights and human drug use

Human rights and the drug policy binary

The legal architecture behind the human rights and drug control frameworks

Part II: Applying a human rights perspective

Health rights, autonomy rights and the drug control framework

Religious rights, related rights and the drug control framework

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	344 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-08717-X / 103208717X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-08717-7 / 9781032087177
Zustand	Neuware