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 Putting TRAC to Work |
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School of Public Policy Working Papers. Paper 52, Pepperdine University |
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October 31, 2014 |
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Violence in Illicit Markets: Unintended Consequences and the Search for Paradoxical Effects of Enforcement
By James Prieger and Jonathan D. Kulick
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While higher revenue and violence are unintended
consequences of enforcement, the experience of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s showed that
there can be paradoxical outcomes as well. That period was a time of greatly increased enforcement
effort in the “War on Drugs” but also a time when the street prices of cocaine and heroin fell dramatically. That so much enforcement effort, which mostly targeted the supply chain, was coincident with sharply falling prices is therefore a puzzle......[citing TRAC research].
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