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Drug Wars

YR 9 GLOBAL ISSUES:

UNIT: CONFLICT & PEACE


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The UnitedNations Officeon Drugs &Crime is thebest source ofinformation onthe global

narcoticsindustry


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Source: World Drug Report 2012. p1

What illicit drug are the most popular / least popuar?


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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT

OF THE GLOBAL DRUG

TRADE EVIDENCE FROM

THE MID 2000s.

What was estimatedvalue of the globalnarcotics trade in

2005?

How does thiscompare to human

trafficking?

How does thiscompare to the illicitfirearms trade?


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Source:World

Drug

Report

2007


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Source: World Drug Report 2012, p17

The Human Cost of the Drug Wars

Drug Related Deaths


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DRUG USE IN THE UNITED STATES

Source:

World

Drug

Report

2012

p28


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The Source of Cocaine: Cultivation of Coca Bush:

In a paragraph response outline the trends in Coca bush production from 2001 to

2010, in the 3 countries listed.

Source: World Drug Report 2012 p35


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What does this graph say about drug controls efforts?

Economic Models for Drug Markets. Source: World Drug Report 2012 p68


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The Costs of Crime The basis for measuring the cost of crime is the

opportunity cost principle.

The net economic cost of crime to society is thedifference between what GDP would be if there wasneither criminal nor crime prevention activities andwhat GDP currently is, given present criminal andcrime prevention activities.

(Source: Economics of Social Issues, 2006: 119)


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The costs of Crime To estimate the cost of violent crime, it is possible to

start with the loss of earnings (or value of productionservices rendered) of the victims and those close to the

victims. Crimes against property are obviously the values of the

property damaged or destroyed.

Additional costs of the whole range of criminal

activities consist of the cost of prevention,apprehension and correction, since resources used forthese purposes could have been used to producealternative goods and services valuable to consumers.


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The Cost of Crime Many items thought to be costs are really transfers of

purchasing power to the perpetrators of crimes fromtheir victims.

Reprehensible as theft may be, it is difficult toconclude that it represents a large net economic cost tosociety.


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Impact of Crime on GDP Criminal activities in their aggregate lower GDP

below what it would be without them

Crime prevention activities should, if effective, raiseGDP above the level that would be in their absence.

Crime Prevention activities can be considered aneconomic good or service since GDP is higher them

that it would be without them.


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What do you think is happening in thisphoto?

I D b C i f h i l i f


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In December 2001, Cocaine farmers throw cocaine leaves as a sign of protestin Chimore Bolivia. The purpose was to show that cocaine cultivation stillexists on a day the Bolivian government was holding a ceremony to claim

victory in its campaign to rid the nation of drug-growing plantations.


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Major Assessment

Item:

Essay:

Arguments for &against the

decriminalization

of drugs.


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