Intro to Legal Studies - Unit 3

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Two basic types of social contorl

  1. Internalization of group norms (informal)

  2. Control through external pressures (formal)

  • Law is an example of a formal social control


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How is the history of drug trade tied to colonial history

  • Global drug control originates from the Sino-Indian Opium Trade of the 19th century

  • Global drug control regime originated and dominated by the colonial powers

  • Key global drug enforcement treaty: Convention Against Illicit Traffic of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988

  • 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotics

  • Prohibitionist approach


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How has Cannabis prohibition failed?

  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimating that between 2010-2016 cannabis cultivation was reported in 145 countries worldwide representing 94 per cent of the world’s total population

  • According to research from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) who examined 69 countries between 2014-2018, cannabis is the drug that most brings people into contact with the criminal justice system, accounting for more than half of all drug law offences cases


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How has Cannabis legalization changed Canada

  • Trudeau's 2013 election win - The Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation 

  • First G7 nation and second nation after Uruguay to legalise Cannabis

  • Estimated that in the first three years of legalisation, cannabis has contributed $43.5 billion to the Canadian economy


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How is legalization of cannabis still illegal?

  • Cannabis procured outside of the legal market is still criminalized

  • “Leading to an increased risk that those who have been subject to the harms of enforcement… continue to experience those harms” (Garius and Ali, 2022)

  • The Act expanded the number of criminal and regulatory offences related to cannabis


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Michel Foucalt - Discipline and Punish

  • shift from punishment being inflicted on the body to punishment being inflicted on the mind 

  • Contrasts sovereign power with disciplinary power


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What does Regulation and surveillance do?

  • reduce the need for external restraints

  • Potential for surveillance produces conformity


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What is late modern society characterized by?

  •  insecurity and punitiveness


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What is the purposes of punishment?

  • Rehabilitation 

  • Deterrence

  • Incapacitation

  • Retribution