Human Rights and Drug Control: A New Perspective by Melissa Bone (English) Hardc

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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.

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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.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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTSTable of international instrumentsTable of international documentsTable of national legislation and documentsTable of casesAcknowledgementsDedicationList of abbreviationsIntroductionPart 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 frameworkConclusionBibliographyIndex

Long Description

Challenging the moral hegemony of the prohibitionist logic of the global drug regime, this book explores the human rights of individuals to consume psychoactive drugs. The current approach towards tackling the so-called drugs problem is not working. By viewing drugs as the problem and trying to fight them, the situation gets worse. Accordingly, this book operates on the premise that psychoactive use has always occurred and will always occur in societies. While the law is the best placed mechanism to regulate our actions relating to certain psychoactives, the book argues against the stranglehold of the criminal law, in favour of a human rights based approach; one which is designed to reflect and respond to the human condition. The book is divided into two parts. Part I comprehensively examines the value of human rights on a philosophical, political, legal and institutional basis, in order to elicit their capacity to provide a new perspective on drug control. This human rights perspective is then applied in Part II of the book, which employs the rights to health and religion as conceptual starting points to demonstrate how human rights might improve the drug control framework, and how the lens of human rights can point to different ways of regulating drug consumption. Analysing both UK and international case law, this book develops unique regulatory ideas and insights which better respond to the complexity of human drug use. "

Details ISBN1138224022 ISBN-10 1138224022 ISBN-13 9781138224025 Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Subtitle A New Perspective DEWEY 344.044 Illustrations 2 Tables, black and white Year 2019 Pages 216 Publication Date 2019-10-28 Language English AU Release Date 2019-10-28 NZ Release Date 2019-10-28 UK Release Date 2019-10-28 Author Melissa Bone Alternative 9781032087177 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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