Evolution of the Italian penal legislation on illicit drugs. The "autonomous" evolution of the spread of drugs and the lack of substantial response to the attempts at legal control. Structural socio-economic change in the country. The connection between this change and the spread of drugs. The influence of public opinion and its effects on the legislative reform. Western culture's illusion as to the feasibility of social control in terms merely of penal sanctions.
Drug Diffusion and Social Change: The Illusion about a Formal Social Control / Solivetti, Luigi Maria. - In: THE HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. - ISSN 0265-5527. - 33:1(1994), pp. 41-61.
Drug Diffusion and Social Change: The Illusion about a Formal Social Control
Luigi Maria Solivetti
1994
Abstract
Evolution of the Italian penal legislation on illicit drugs. The "autonomous" evolution of the spread of drugs and the lack of substantial response to the attempts at legal control. Structural socio-economic change in the country. The connection between this change and the spread of drugs. The influence of public opinion and its effects on the legislative reform. Western culture's illusion as to the feasibility of social control in terms merely of penal sanctions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
