Essays about: "drug free society"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words drug free society.

  1. 1. Evaluation of the effectiveness of narcotics policies by the Swedish Government

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

    Author : Amit Kumar Singh; Barjinder Kaur; [2023]
    Keywords : Evaluation of narcotics; Substance misuasge; Mortality;

    Abstract : Swedish news media are questioning whether Sweden's zero-tolerance drug policy can be sustained. Even in northern Europe, governments seldom take such a strong stance, and the UN has criticised Sweden's "balanced health and human rights strategy. Sweden's tough attitude is one factor. READ MORE

  3. 2. Questioning the unquestionable : A normative study of the values, argumentation and logic of the Swedish drug policy

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Statsvetenskap

    Author : Alexander Carmler; [2021]
    Keywords : drug policy; sweden; normative; values; logic; argumentation; internal validity; liberty; mill; narkotikapolitik; sverige; normativ; värden; logik; argumentation; intern validitet; frihet; mill;

    Abstract : Sweden’s drug policy still invokes the ideas of zero-tolerance and prohibition despite the high reported number of drug-related deaths and arrest rates for using drugs in Sweden in the latest years. To reach knowledge about why prohibition of illegal drugs has remained such a strong staple of Swedish politics for the latest 60 years, this study asks questions about which ideas and arguments constituting the Swedish drug policy, examines the logical coherence of these, and proposes an alternative policy route which aims to mitigate the shortcomings of the current policy. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Drug Free Society: Drug Politics as a Field of Struggles : A Discourse Analysis of the Drug Politics Debate in Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter, 1992-2018.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Daniela Trocilo Tavares Genovez; [2017]
    Keywords : Drug Politics; Discourse; Sweden; Field; Bourdieu; Foucault;

    Abstract : New ways to deal with the drug problem seems to be emerging in western countries. Sweden, however, holds on to its strict zero-tolerance approach. READ MORE

  5. 4. The good and bad victim : a critical discourse analysis of the representations of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canadian local press

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Josefin Aldegren; [2016]
    Keywords : critical discourse analysis; Canadian local press; class; gender; race; social constructions; Indigenous women; missing and murdered; intersectionality; mänskliga rättigheter; human rights; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Den här studien undersöker hur den Kanadensiska lokaltidningen Winnipeg Free press porträtterar försvunna och mördade urfolkskvinnor. Syften med studien är att undersöka om sociala konstruktioner av genus, ”ras” och klass påverkar kvinnoras beskrivningar, och om dessa beskrivningar är påverkade av stereotypa uppfattningar om urfolkskvinnor. READ MORE

  6. 5. "A Drug-Free World" Rationality & Drug Control

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Josefin Anselmsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Globalization; Drug Control; Control Policies; Governmentality; Political rationality; Power and Political Strategies; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This paper aims to illuminate the strategies of international and national drug control. As globalization affects the global drug problem and the possibilities of controlling the same, an effective drug control at the international level is highly important. READ MORE