| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16776 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16776 |
| Rethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy | |
| John J. Donohue III; Benjamin Ewing; David Peloquin | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-02-10 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper provides a critical review of the empirical and theoretical literatures on illegal drug policy, including cross-country comparisons, in order to evaluate three drug policy regimes: criminalization, legalization and "depenalization." Drawing on the experiences of various states, as well as countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands, the paper attempts to identify cost-minimizing policies for marijuana and cocaine by assessing the differing ways in which the various drug regimes would likely change the magnitude and composition of the social costs of each drug. The paper updates and evaluates Jeffrey Miron's 1999 national time series analysis of drug prohibition spending and the homicide rate, which underscores the lack of a solid empirical base for assessing the theoretically anticipated crime drop that would come from drug legalization. Nonetheless, the authors conclude that given the number of arrests for marijuana possession, and the costs of incarceration and crime systemic to cocaine criminalization, the current regime is unlikely to be cost-minimizing for either marijuana or cocaine. |
| 主题 | Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16776 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574451 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | John J. Donohue III,Benjamin Ewing,David Peloquin. Rethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy. 2011. |
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| w16776.pdf（605KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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