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UPDATES ON OUR FELLOW’S PUBLICATIONS

Posted on May 19, 2023 by crimctr in Fellow's Update, Updates

Congratulations to Dr. Vincent Cheng for his recent publication on The Impact of Later Life Events on Cessation Motivation of Older Adults with Substance Use Disorder in Hong Kong, published in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Call for Application: Pathways to Harm Reduction Drug Policy in Hong Kong and East & Southeast Asia: Principles, Process and Practices Annual Training 2022

Posted on August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 by crimctr in Event promotion, New Events, Uncategorized, Updates

Pathways to Harm Reduction Drug Policy in Hong Kong and East & Southeast Asia: Principles, Process and Practices Annual Training 2022

The training will be held online via ZOOM from November 7-9, 2022.

Apply by September 15, 2022

The training will focus on the connections between harm reduction, public health, and drug policy as well as the gap between these principles and practice in the implementation of drug policies in Asia. The training will familiarize participants with the international drug control system, regional trends in drug markets (supply, transit and demand), and comparative case studies of alternative approaches to managing drug use in society as a health and social concern. The course will also look at priority areas and emerging challenges within the region, including death penalty and punitive sentencing policies, imprisonment of foreign nationals, women’s incarceration and impact of COVID-19. It is hoped that the training can provide insights on how participants may adopt measures to bring enforcement activities and domestic law in line with human rights obligations and explore pragmatic approaches that mitigate the adverse health and social consequences of both drug use and overly punitive drug policies.

Course Content:

Current Drug Trends, International Drug Control System & Impacts in Asia-Pacific
Public Health and Drug Policy
Death Penalty and Drug Offenses
The Economics of Drug Markets and Drug Policies
Long Term Imprisonment of Foreign Nationals for Drug Trafficking
Women’s Incarceration for Drug Related Offenses

Who should apply?

Government staff working on drug policy and health
Individuals from civil society working in public health, human rights, development, journalism, law, public policy, etc. with an interest in drug policy
Researchers and junior faculty

While priority is given to those working on drug policy, no prior knowledge of human rights or drug policy is required to apply.

Eligible Regions:

Individuals from countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia are encouraged to apply.

Application Guidelines:

Complete the application form and send to Ms. Leona Li/Velda Chui at rifhrhub@hku.hk along with a curriculum vitae. On the last page of the application, you should provide a personal statement that answers why the training is relevant to your current activities and what you expect to get out of the training. The program representative will provide confirmation of receiving your application within 3 working days and application results approximately within a month by email.

Call for Papers: Killing in the name of the war on drugs

Posted on February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 by crimctr in New Events, Updates

Killing in the name of the war on drugs

Guest editors: Alex Stevens, Karen Joe Laider

The Asian region is marked by a high number of killings that are carried out in the name of the war on drugs. Several countries retain the death penalty for drug offences, and there are also numerous extra-judicial killings of people who use drugs, especially in the Philippines.

This special section of the International Journal of Drug Policy will build on work presented at the first Asian regional meeting of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, where several papers on such killings were presented. We now invite researchers in any discipline relevant to drug policy to submit articles for publication about the topic of killings that are carried out in Asia in the name of the war on drugs. These could be judicial or extra-judicial killings. Authors do not have to have attended or presented at the ISSDP regional meeting.

We will particularly welcome articles on:

Extra-judicial killings of people who use drugs in the Philippines, Bangladesh and other Asian countries.
The implementation of the death penalty for drug offences in China, Iran and other Asian countries.
Efforts at national and international level to put an end to judicial and extra-judicial killings related to drug use and trafficking in Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and other Asian countries.
Analysis of debates about such killings in the public sphere in Asia, including the political uses of capital punishment and the creation of public opinion on this topic.

To clarify: we are not seeking articles for this special section that focus on violence that is related to drug policy or markets unless they relate to killings that are carried out by states or states- sponsored actors in the name of controlling drug markets and users. Such other articles can be submitted for consideration in the usual way.

Submitted articles will be subject to the usual peer review process. Articles that are published in this special section will be made free-to-download for a promotional period of between 60 and 90 days.

If you would like to submit an article for publication in this special section, please use the usual submission process at https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-drug- policy/0955-3959/guide-for-authors. Specify ‘drug war killing in Asia’ as the name of the special section, and choose Alex Stevens as your preferred editor.

The deadline for submission is 27 April 2020. Click here for more details!