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Punishment and Drug-Pushers

Punishment and Drug-Pushers 2 ANZJ Crim (1977) 10 EDITORIAL The proposed increases in the severity of sentences for drug-pushers recently announced by the Federal Cabinet! must be seen as of doubtful value. The sentences "for importing, exporting and selling cannabis leaf will stay at a $4000 fine or 10 years jail"2 whilst for other drugs the tariff increases to fines up to $100,000 or 25 years jail." It would be of interest to know the penalties exacted to date under the present "lenient" scheme: how often has the fine of $4000 been imposed and how often has a jail sentence of ten years been passed? Have they ever? Forell has commented upon this problem of increasing sentences for the drug pusher in the following terms": In America, draconian penalties have simply prompted the big operators to take more precautions, by bribery and intimidation, and by carefully insulating themselves from those lower down the line of distribution. The pushers who get caught are usually small fry, mostly addicts themselves and therefore under tem'ble pressure to supply and recruit others to finance their own craving. For the big operator, a maximum penalty of 25 years is almost an invitation to resort to murder to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

Punishment and Drug-Pushers

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology , Volume 10 (1): 2 – Mar 1, 1977
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2 ANZJ Crim (1977) 10 EDITORIAL The proposed increases in the severity of sentences for drug-pushers recently announced by the Federal Cabinet! must be seen as of doubtful value. The sentences "for importing, exporting and selling cannabis leaf will stay at a $4000 fine or 10 years jail"2 whilst for other drugs the tariff increases to fines up to $100,000 or 25 years jail." It would be of interest to know the penalties exacted to date under the present "lenient" scheme: how often has the fine of $4000 been imposed and how often has a jail sentence of ten years been passed? Have they ever? Forell has commented upon this problem of increasing sentences for the drug pusher in the following terms": In America, draconian penalties have simply prompted the big operators to take more precautions, by bribery and intimidation, and by carefully insulating themselves from those lower down the line of distribution. The pushers who get caught are usually small fry, mostly addicts themselves and therefore under tem'ble pressure to supply and recruit others to finance their own craving. For the big operator, a maximum penalty of 25 years is almost an invitation to resort to murder to

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Published: Mar 1, 1977

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