Arenas of drug transactions: Adolescent cannabis transactions in ENGLAND - Social supply
Arenas of drug transactions: Adolescent cannabis transactions in ENGLAND - Social supply
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DOI：
10.1177/002204260703700406
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发表时间：
2007-09-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Turnbull, Paul
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作者：
Coomber, Ross;Turnbull, Paul
非法药物的社会供应问题是一个重要的问题，因为它划定了一个单独的“交易”类别，即朋友向其他朋友供应或促进供应。有人认为，这种性质的供应与“适当处理”有很大不同，因此有理由对其采取不同的刑事司法方法。有人争辩说，在使用大麻等物质的年轻人的社会供应方面，情况尤其如此。这项研究涉及对英国六个地点(三个农村，三个城市)的192名大麻使用者的采访。大多数人完全是大麻使用者。近一半(45%)的人参与了某种形式的供应，78%的人报告与他人分享他们的大麻。几乎所有的补给活动都发生在年龄范围很近的朋友之间。调查结果表明，年轻的大麻使用者很少接触到更广泛的毒品市场，更好的做法是将这一活动理解为发生在“交易领域”，而不是将其视为通常设想的毒品市场的延伸。我们认为，在这一交易领域内，与更广泛的毒品市场有足够的区别，因为那里的大多数活动都应该受到刑事司法系统的较少惩罚。
The issue of the social supply of illicit drugs is an important one because it delineates a separate category of "dealing, "whereby friends supply or facilitate supply to other friends. Supply of this nature has been argued to be sufficiently different to "dealing proper" to justify a different criminal justice approach in relation to it. This has been argued to be particularly true regarding social supply among young people who use substances such as cannabis. This research involved interviews with 192 cannabis users in six (three rural, three urban) locations in England. Most were exclusively cannabis users. Nearly half (45%) had been involved in some form of supply, and 78% reported sharing their cannabis with others. Nearly all supply events were between friends within a close age range. The findings suggest that there is little contact by young cannabis users to the wider drug market and that it may be better to understand this activity as taking place in an "arena of transaction" rather than seeing it as an extension of the normally conceived drug market We argue that there is sufficient difference within this arena of transaction from the wider drug market for most activity there to be dealt with less punitively by the criminal justice system.