NCJ Number
146727
Journal
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Volume: 1 Issue: 2 Pages: 30-47
Date Published
1994
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This article examines the European Community structures which frame drug control policies and facilitate their development.
Abstract
The starting point of this article is the term "subsidiarity", broadly defined as the principle by which policy responsibilities are allocated to particular branches and levels of political structures. The author uses the concept to illustrate the manner in which European cooperation on criminal justice generally, and drug enforcement particularly, is being allocated. The article begins with a review of the broad structures of European Union: (1) Contexts (economic and monetary union, historical development, Justice and Home Affairs in European Political Cooperation context and in EC context, modus operandi, Schengen Information System, operational cooperation, governmentality, money laundering); (2) the Community's other policies; (3) prospects (police privatization and drug enforcement); and (4) implications. Drug enforcement appears to be evolving in three directions: (1) cooperation on antitrafficking measures in the context of multilateral European Political Cooperation; (2) increasing powers of the EC in relation to the regulation of trafficking-related aspects of industrial and banking activities within the Single Market; and (3) the question of which policy discourses may in future frame EC policy on drug users. Footnotes, references