Category: Illicit Drug Markets

Les impacts sociaux de la culture de cannabis dans les champs d’une région rurale du Québec : entre la banalisation du phénomène et la dégradation du tissu social

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Cet article dresse un portrait empirique des impacts sociaux vécus par les résidents de deux municipalités régionales de comté (MRC) du Québec aux prises avec le problème de la culture illicite de cannabis dans les champs environnants. L’enquête de terrain, réalisée en 2006, comportait deux volets. Le premier consistait en une démarche qualitative visant à…

Fisher, B., Bouchard, M. (2010). Commentary on Ware and St Arnaud-Trempe (2010): Nabilone abuse in Canada? Nature provides an effective prevention program. Addiction, 105, 504-505.

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Bouchard, M., Nguyen, H. (2010). Is it who you know, or how many that counts? Criminal networks and cost avoidance in a sample of young offenders. Justice Quarterly, 27, 130-158.

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The aim of the current study is to assess whether criminal networks can help young offenders avoid contacts with the criminal justice system. We examine the association between criminal network and cost avoidance specifically for the crime of cannabis cultivation in a rural region in Quebec, Canada. A self‐report delinquency survey, administered to the region’s…

Bouchard M., Dion, Claude B. (2009). Growers and facilitators : Probing the role of entrepreneurs in the development of the cannabis cultivation industry. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 22, 25-38.

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Hydroponics is one the fastest rising sectors in the horticultural industry. It is, however, a contestedone. The problem with the industry is that the products sold by hydroponics entrepreneurs are not onlybeing used to grow tomatoes or cucumbers, but also potentially illegal produce, such as cannabis. In this paper, we explore the extent to which…

Bouchard, M., Alain, M., Nguyen, H. (2009). Convenient labor: The prevalence and nature of youth involvement in the marijuana cultivation industry. International Journal of Drug Policy, 20, 467-474.

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The emergence of cannabis cultivation in industrialised countries may offer adolescents, especially those living in regions suitable for outdoor cultivation, new opportunities to participate in the drug trade. The current study examines the prevalence and the nature of youth involvement in cannabis cultivation in an important agricultural region of Quebec, Canada. A self-report delinquency survey…

Bouchard, M. (2008). Towards a realistic method to estimate the size of cannabis cultivation industry in developed countries. Contemporary Drug Problems, 35, 291-320.

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Among the many difficulties with estimating the size of the cannabis industry is that suitable methodologies for estimating large-scale outdoor illegal drug production in developing countries cannot be used to estimate indoor production in industrialized countries. This article proposes a new approach that overcomes some of these difficulties. The case study is a mature cannabis…

Bouchard, M. (2008). Editorial: Measurement issues in drug policy analysis. Bulletin on Narcotic Drugs, issue LX, Vol. 1: 1-4.

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Bouchard, M. (2007). A capture-recapture model to estimate the size of criminal populations and the risks of detection in a marijuana cultivation industry. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 23, 221-241.

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Originally developed in biology, capture-recapture methodologies have increasingly been integrated into the study of human populations to provide estimates of the size of “hidden populations.” This paper explores the validity of one capture-recapture model—Zelterman’s (1988) truncated Poisson estimator—used to estimate the size of the marijuana cultivation industry in Quebec, Canada. The capture–recapture analysis draws on…

Bouchard, M. (2007). On the Resilience of Illegal Drug Markets. Global Crime, 8, 325-344.

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This paper argues that the concept of resilience is a fruitful way of understanding the impact of repressive policies on illegal drug markets. For the purpose of this article, resilience is defined as the ability of market participants to preserve the existing levels of exchanges between buyers and sellers, despite external pressure aimed at disrupting…

Bouchard, M., Tremblay, P. (2005). Risks of Arrest Across Drug Markets: A Capture-Recapture Analysis of “Hidden” Dealer and User Populations, Journal of Drug Issues, 34(4), 733-54.

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Capture-recapture methodologies have been used to estimate the size of the hidden population of active offenders on the basis of the observed properties of the truncated distribution of arrested offenders. We use this approach to estimate the odds of arrest of marijuana, cocaine, crack, and heroin dealers and users in one Canadian province (Quebec). Findings…