Interestingly, however, enced a sharp rise in gun violence, and recent the increase in Vancouver’s gang violence has investigations have demonstrated the intimate occurred several years after the release of a new “The illicit drug market remains the largest criminal market in terms of extent, scope, and the degree of involvement by the majority of organized crime groups.” Criminal Intelligence Ser [...] One key concern drug law enforcement will reduce violence, the driving the introduction of new players into the existing scientific evidence strongly suggests that illicit drug market is the existence of a massive drug prohibition likely contributes to drug market illicit market that has resulted in response to violence and higher homicide rates. [...] Effect of drug law enforcement on drug-related violence problems associated with drug consumption.61 In the British Columbia context, the vast Specifically, their report states: majority of the province’s illegal drug market is The [Canadian] federal government needs based in the cannabis trade. [...] Most have generated substantial racial disparities in importantly, publication bias may have skewed drug crime sentencing.63-65 For instance, one in the availability of studies investigating the role nine African-American males between the ages of violence and drug law enforcement as a result Figure 5. Estimated number of adults incarcerated for drug law violations in the United States, 1972–2002 [...] Rather, the evidence 21 Urban Health Research Initiative AUTHORS Dan Werb, MSc is a senior research assistant with the Urban Health Research Initiative of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and a graduate student in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.
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