Control social y política criminal en drogas

Abstract

Abstract: This conference presents an overview of the social control mechanisms, with emphasis in those directed towards the control of diverted conducts. Afterwards, it examines the value judgments implied in the criminalization process (cultural and political) that concludes in the typification of conducts as antilegal and guilty,  declared as harmful to legally protected interests.    It weighs the advantages and disadvantages of the penal system regarding the diverted and/or criminal conducts inherent to the “drug business”. The article also stimulates a reflection on the cultural complexity jeopardized in the prohibition of drugs or conscience altering substances. It describes the harmfulness of drugs as being perfomative and non ontologic. In addition, the text makes a balance of the political, cultural and environmental consequences of the prohibition in its punitive context. Finally, it proposes several ideas of public policy in the matter of drugs that begin with the removal of its control from the penal system and to install it within a strategy of tolerance, education and the development of a drug culture.

Keywords:

drogas

control social

política criminal

política pública

prohibicionismo

criminalización

Drugs

social control

criminal policy

public policy

prohibitionism

criminalization

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