Gender and drug policy: Exploring global innovative approaches to drug policy and incarceration
Gender and drug policy: Exploring global innovative approaches to drug policy and incarceration
Across the Americas, drug policies have failed to make a significant dent in the drug trade, while corruption and organized crime continue to thrive. At the same time, these harmful drug policies disproportionately fall on the most vulnerable, including poor women who often enter the drug trade because of desperation, lack of opportunity, and coercion. Stuck in a vicious cycle, the incarceration of these women only heightens their situation of vulnerability and takes a toll on their families and communities. (IDCP, UK, 2017-2020, Artikelserie)
https://idpc.net/publications/2017/06/gender-and-drug-policy-exploring-global-innovative-approaches-to-drug-policy-and-incarceration