The deterrent effects of Australian drug law enforcement

毒品执法工作的基础是这样一种假设，即警察威慑或防止毒品使用和贩运，但威慑效果没有得到检查或使用狭隘的参数来衡量。通过使用现代犯罪学的威慑概念和创新方法，该项目旨在衡量澳大利亚四项警务战略对当前和潜在罪犯使用、拥有和贩运非法药物的决定的威慑效果，并确定警察可以和不能威慑的机制。该项目旨在为一个持久的政策难题提供详细的经验性见解，即警察可以在多大程度上威慑，并建设能力，以更多地根据证据应对与毒品有关的犯罪。

Drug law enforcement efforts have been underpinned by the assumption that police deter or prevent drug use and trafficking, yet deterrent effects have gone unexamined or measured using narrow parameters. By using modern criminological conceptualisations of deterrence and innovative methods, this project aims to measure the deterrent effects of four Australian policing strategies on current and would-be offenders' decisions to use, possess and traffic illicit drugs and identify mechanisms by which police can and cannot deter. The project aims to provide detailed empirical insight into an enduring policy conundrum, namely the extent to which police can be expected to deter, and build capacity for more evidence-informed responses to drug-related crime.