Search for dissertations about: "drugs law"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words drugs law.

  1. 1. Drugs and the Convention on the Rights of the Child : Fragmentation, Contention and Structural Bias

    Author : Damon Barrett; Pål Wrange; Allyn Taylor; Manfred Nowak; Rebecca Stern; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; child rights; drug control; Convention on the Rights of the Child; structural bias; critical child rights studies; internationell rätt; International Law;

    Abstract : Responding to the harms caused by drug use and the drug trade is one of the most pressing and interdisciplinary challenges of our time, within which the protection of children has become central. But there has been relatively little academic attention to the international legal dimensions of drug policy, despite the existence of a dedicated international legal framework on the issue and a range of other treaties that include drugs in some way. READ MORE

  2. 2. Drug Discourses in Contemporary Russia : A Study of the National Press, NGOs and the Government

    Author : My Lilja; Henrik Tham; Therese Reitan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Russia; discourse analysis; drug policy; drugs; NGOs; Russian press; Criminology; Kriminologi; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : In Western Europe and the United States drugs have, since the 1960s, been one of the most discussed social problems. However, in the Soviet Union it was not until perestroika in the mid-1980s that a public debate on this issue began. READ MORE

  3. 3. Stories across borders : how female ex-offenders make sense of their journey through crime and criminal justice in Sweden and England

    Author : Linnéa Österman; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Women - crime - qualitative cross-national methods - Sweden - England;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes to the internationalisation of criminological knowledge about gender and crime through a cross-national analysis of female ex-offenders' qualitative experiences of crime and criminal justice in two European countries; Sweden and England. Grounded in a feminist methodological framework, the study draws on 24 life-story narrative interviews with 12 repeat female offenders in Sweden and 12 in England, who, at the time of the interview, self-identified as desisters. READ MORE

  4. 4. Drugonomics : Industrial Organization of Illegal Drug Markets

    Author : Alberto J. Naranjo R.; Sten Nyberg; Yves Zenou; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Illegal behavior; law enforcement; conflict; drugs; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Insurgents, drug lords and anti-drug supply policies in the Andes. The United States has spent enormous resources on supply policies to decrease illegal drug production in the Andes and availability in the U.S. market. READ MORE

  5. 5. Fluorescent quantum dots and graphene-based sensors for forensic applications

    Author : Johnny Jussi; Ying Fu; Simon Dunne; Qin Wang; Ingemar Petermann; Xin Wang; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Graphene; Quantum Dots; Blood; Forensics; Drugs; Biologisk fysik; Biological Physics;

    Abstract : A key emerging concept within the forensic sciences today areportable measurementdevices, where a much more efficient usage of the resources involved with crime-solving is possible if confirmatory measurements can be realised directly at a crimescene with such devices. Today, the majority of the presently used methods duringcriminal investigation at a crime scene involves measurements of a presumptivenature, which is a vital tool as it enables the screening of samples. READ MORE