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A third way on drug law. (Society).
David Boyum and Mark A. R. Kleiman, "Breaking the Drug-Crime Link" in The Public Interest, Summer 2003 (thepublicinterest.com)
In public policy debates, the case for drug legalization is usually pitted squarely against arguments for increased enforcement of drug laws. Legalization proponents contend that laws against drug use encourage crime while legalization opponents tend to argue that drugs themselves cause crime.
David Boyum, a public policy consultant, and Mark Kleiman, a UCLA professor of public policy, eschew the dichotomy, arguing that both enforcement of drug laws and actual drug use are key factors in the drug-crime connection. So, refusing to choose between drug legalization--which is sure to increase drug use--and increased enforcement of drug laws, Boyum and Kleiman explore alternative policies that will decrease drug-related predatory crime.
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