Brukets brottsdimension - En komparativ studie av portugisisk och svensk narkotikalagstiftning
Sammanfattning: Drug legislation in Europe differs from country to country, and this paper is intended to compare the Portuguese and Swedish legislation. Although the two countries are both bound by the international conventions on the area of drugs, the three UN Conventions which regulate the criminalization of illegal drug trade, they have chosen different approaches when it comes to regulating personal consumption. Both the UN Conventions and the EU regulation let the countries decide for themselves how they choose to tackle the problem of personal consumption of drugs. Sweden has chosen the path of full criminalization, with a tough policy towards both demand and supply. Portugal, on the other hand, has chosen to put in actions against the illegal drug trade, but to decriminalize personal consumption. Nowadays, it’s merely an administrative offence, and the measurements against this usually take the form of rehabilitation programmes. The paper begins with an introduction of the topic, and then it describes the grounds for criminalization. It discusses various criminological theories, which can be applied to abuse problems, with a discussion about the reasons behind legislation. The third to fifth chapters describe the international, Swedish and Portuguese legal frameworks in this area. The last chapter, the analysis, tries to answer the initial questions and discusses the pros and cons of criminalization versus decriminalization.
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