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Crime and the Partial Legalisation of Heroin: Comments and Caveats

Crime and the Partial Legalisation of Heroin: Comments and Caveats AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1992) 25 (27-40) 27 CRIME AND THE PARTIAL LEGALISATION OF HEROIN: COMMENTS AND CAVEATS Stephen K Mugford' In Mark Anthony's speech to the Romans, Shakespeare provides us with the paradigm of how many academic debates are developed. Mark Anthony, you will recall, repeatedly characterises Brutus as 'an honourable man', but then demonstrates quite the opposite. Imitating this approach, academic writers begin by saying how pleased they are that Dr So-and-So has written in the area and then proceed to bucket everything the author has said. This academic tradition creates a problem for me here, since I want to start by saying how pleased I am to read Don Weatherburn's article - and mean it. Perhaps my excursus is sufficient to say that I do not intend to try to do to his article what Mark Anthony did to Brutus' reputation. The plan I propose is to break my article into two parts. In the first, I follow the outline of his article, identifying three types of point - those where he makes important criticisms of the position with which I am identified, those where he makes criticisms with which I disagree, with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1992
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486589202500103
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Abstract

AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1992) 25 (27-40) 27 CRIME AND THE PARTIAL LEGALISATION OF HEROIN: COMMENTS AND CAVEATS Stephen K Mugford' In Mark Anthony's speech to the Romans, Shakespeare provides us with the paradigm of how many academic debates are developed. Mark Anthony, you will recall, repeatedly characterises Brutus as 'an honourable man', but then demonstrates quite the opposite. Imitating this approach, academic writers begin by saying how pleased they are that Dr So-and-So has written in the area and then proceed to bucket everything the author has said. This academic tradition creates a problem for me here, since I want to start by saying how pleased I am to read Don Weatherburn's article - and mean it. Perhaps my excursus is sufficient to say that I do not intend to try to do to his article what Mark Anthony did to Brutus' reputation. The plan I propose is to break my article into two parts. In the first, I follow the outline of his article, identifying three types of point - those where he makes important criticisms of the position with which I am identified, those where he makes criticisms with which I disagree, with

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1992

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