High on drugs, yet soft on drivers?
Yazan: Sara | 04 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: crime, criminal justice, drugs
Just before Christmas, the Government published two media releases on the subject of crime and sentencing. The first concerned making several ‘legal highs’ illegal; the second announced a review of the maximum sentences for dangerous driving. What grabbed my attention was the current similarity of sentences for very different crimes. Currently the maximum sentence for [...]
Drugs and the death penalty: a non-wailing liberal speaks
Yazan: Sara | 30 December 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: criminal justice, drugs, international
I’ve blogged previously on the insane nature of the UK’s drugs laws; laws that can criminalise people who have done no harm to anyone but themselves and which serve to exacerbate the problem they allegedly seek to prevent. The problems caused by ‘illegal’ drugs are almost entirely caused by their very illegality, rather than their pharmacological [...]
Now the drugs laws don't work (they just make it worse)*
Yazan: sarabedford | 30 July 2008 | 5 Comments
Categories: criminal justice
The news today that the police are fighting a losing battle against drug crime cannot have come as a surprise to anyone who ever ventures outside their front door. Despite all the time and effort spent on drug crime, the report from the UK Drug Policy Commission says that seizures are having little impact on [...]
