This book contains nine essays written by distinguished scholars from North America. Europe, and Asia, and provides an in-depth examination of the socio-legal developments of drug control in different countries.
Part 1 Drug Control Policy and the State: State-Organised Crime - Drugs, Law, and the National Interest, William J. Chambliss; Illicit Drugs and Social Control in Scandinavia - A Case Study in International Moral Entrepreneurship, Jorgen Jepsen; Drugs and the Law in Post-Franco Spain, Acel R. Reeg; Finnish Drug Control Policy - Change and Accommodation, Ahti Laitinen. Part 2 The Political Economy of Drugs: The Chinese Laundry - International Drug Trafficking and Hong Kong's Banking Industry, Mark S. Gaylord; The Yakuza and Amphetamine Use in Japan, Masayuki Tamura; The Organized Crime/Drug Connection - National and International Perspectives, Ernesto U. Savona; Opium Policy and Colonial Relations in Hong Kong, 1841-1945, Harold Traver. Part 3 Future Directions: Drugs and the Law - Where We Stand and What We Can Do, John F. Galliher.
