Analysis of Implement-Criminal Policy Discourses to Control Drug Abuse

Substantive criminal analysis of sexual abuse of children and adolescents

The Child and Adolescent Protection Act approved in 1399 have criminalized many sexually abusive acts against children and adolescents by using the term “sexual abuse” for the first time. Sexual abuse can be divided into two general categories: first, abuses in which the child or adolescent is the main target of perpetrator to satisfy his sexual needs, second, using child or adolescent as a mea...

Workplace drug abuse policy.

An estimated 70 percent of illicit drug users are in the workforce. This paper studies workplace policies relating to drug abuse treatment and testing in a labor market with asymmetric information about worker proclivities to abuse drugs and to incur costs of workplace accidents. Drug abuse has a moral hazard component related to worker choice of treatment or other deterrent activities, and a s...

Drug Policy, Criminal Justice and Mass Imprisonment

The Moderating Role of Locus of Control in the Relationship between Attachment to Parent and Tendency to Drug Abuse

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigating the moderating role of the locus of control on the relationship between avoidance and anxiety attachment to parent and the tendency to drug use. Method: The research was correlational. The study population included all Shahid Beheshti University students of Tehran during 2018-2019. 253 students were selected using convenience samp...

Workplace drug abuse policy: A comment

McGuire and Ruhm (1993) develop an interesting and policy-relevant model of workplace drug abuse policy. They examine workers’ choice to undergo treatment (rehabilitation) for substance abuse and firms’ choice of drug-testing policies, concluding that ‘labor market incentives will generally lead to too little treatment and too much testing’. Drug addicts are assumed to have a ‘high’ probability...

National drug control policy and prescription drug abuse: facts and fallacies.

In a recent press release Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman and President of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University called for a major shift in American attitudes about substance abuse and addiction and a top to bottom overhaul in the nation's healthcare, criminal justice, social service, and eduction systems to curtail the rise in illegal drug use and other...