Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Technology and crime: cloning giant sheep

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  There are things you can go to prison for that wouldn't have been possible to do not long ago. The Washington Post is on the case: Ran...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Are Swedish gangs becoming the hitmen of Scandanavia?

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 We're accustomed to drug violence among gangs even in wealthy countries, but here's a story from The Times (of London) suggesting t...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Gambling addiction

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  When gambling opportunities were rare and often illegal in the U.S., gambling addiction was a less visible problem than it is becoming tod...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Oregon is re-criminalizing drugs

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 The war on drugs is unforgiving, and neither criminalization nor decriminalization seems to be a winning strategy.  The NYT has the latest ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Prison gangs, in Latin America and in the U.S.

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 It's one thing to be able to capture and confine prisoners. When gangs are involved, it's quite another thing to control the prison...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Marijuana black market persists in CA (despite the beginning of a legal market)

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 The LA Times has the story, about how legalization of marijuana in California so far failed to end the black market, complete with violence...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

The war on drugs is a war

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The war on drugs doesn't begin at U.S. borders. Here's a dispatch from Ecuador, in the WSJ: Ecuador Is at War With Drug Gangs, Presi...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

AEA's lockbox: recording allegations while reserving the right to report them

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The American Economic Association has announced that they have initiated a Reporting Lockbox – Now Available to Members , meant to allow mem...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Hitmen are common in film but otherwise scarce

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  The NYT considers the prevalence of hitmen in movies, and why it's hard to find one in real life. Hit Men Are Easy to Find in the Movi...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Some year-end good news: U.S. homicides are down

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To put deaths in their grim perspective, we have a lot more deaths from drug overdoses than from homicides.  But we're headed in the rig...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Balance of violence: prison-based criminal cartels, the case of Brazil's PCC.

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The vexed relationship between banned markets and black markets is perhaps nowhere clearer than when prison based gangs of convicted drug de...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Drugs, drug economics, and violence in Colombia and Ecuador, as Colombia withdraws from the war on drugs

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 Fighting a war on drugs hasn't yielded clear successes (at any point in the supply chain), but surrendering is no picnic either.  The W...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

The underbelly of the global art market (NYT)

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 Art is not just art, it's also an investment opportunity, and one that evades many of the regulations that apply to investments recogni...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Homelessness and fentanyl, in Oregon and California

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 Both the criminal justice system and the harm reduction movement seem to be facing an intractable problem with fentanyl and homelessness.  ...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

Drug markets: the replacement of agriculture by chemistry

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Labs are replacing fields as the source of addictive drugs. Here are two stories, from National Affairs, and the Financial Times. The curren...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Organ trafficking, and how to reduce it -- Frederike Ambagtsheer in Conversation

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Frederike Ambagtsheer , who studies illegal markets for organs and transplants,  has some sensible thoughts on how to combat organ trafficki...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Black markets for alcohol in Iran

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 Prohibition (of alcohol) didn't work in the U.S. from 1920-1933, and it's not working in Iran today, despite "the Islamic Repu...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Harm reduction is not a panacea: drug use and drug policy in Portugal, and San Francisco

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 The Washington Post has a story about Portugal, and the SF Chronicle has one as well. Both stories touch on the tensions between treating d...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The harmful human rights impact of unjustified criminalization of individuals and communities: ICJ statement

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 The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has published a set of legal principles  for a human rights-based approach to criminal laws p...