Home Team Journal Special Issue: Spotlight on Drugs

Illicit drugs continue to pose a global problem for law enforcement officers, policymakers and society at large. In this Special Issue of the Home Team Journal, researchers from various backgrounds and disciplines share insights on various drug-related themes, including consequences of liberalising drug policies, socio-economic impact of drugs on societies, the effectiveness of Singapore’s anti-drug policies and the public’s support for them.

The research in this Special Issue demonstrates that Singapore’s anti-drug strategies are grounded in evidence of what works and by its experience and challenges. Professor Stella Quah, Adjunct Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, is the Guest Editor for this Special Issue.

• From Harm Reduction to Harm Prevention: A Cross-national Comparison of Eleven Countries

• Review of Empirical Evidence on the Link between Drugs and Crime

• Societal Impact of Cannabis

• Costs of Drug Crime: Literature Review and Methodology

• The Intergenertional Transmission of Offending from Drug-Abusing Parents: Understanding the Impact of Parental Drug Abuse and Incarceration on Children's Offending Behaviour in Singapore

• Public Perception towards Singapore's Anti-Drug Policies

• Deterrent Effect of Historical Amendments to Singapore's Sanction Regime for Drug Trafficking

• The Impact of Deterrence on the Decision-Making Process of Drug Traffickers

• Singapore's Anti-drug Strategy: A Sum of Experience, Evidence and Environment

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