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With technology development and information popularization, transportation is getting more and more convenient, which makes drug dealing become a global-level drug market. Therefore, drug problem is also becoming a global crisis. Recent years have seen continuing high criminal rate related with drugs in this country; its popular rate is also on upward trend; the ages of drug users are also becoming younger and younger. Further more, co morbidity rate related with drugs is increasing, such as the rate of AIDS, death and injury caused by the injection of drugs, as well as traffic accidents, violence and murders related with drugs, which show how serious the drug problem is. There fore, how to prevent the extension of drug market effectively are the first things first. In order to increase the difficulty of acquiring drugs and prevent the circulation of drugs, we should know more on the level of seizing drugs. So, this study expects to get more complete information through understanding and analyzing drug market.
To explore the crime mode of drug market, the study adopted the method of phenomenology and property research, while data was collected in the way of depth interview and choosing a lot of cases. All together, there are 12 drug dealers presented their experience of drug dealing. The study takes the supply and demand of drugs as the core of research, discussing drug pricing, raw materials, manufactures, manufacturing methods, transportation styles, routes, the access channels of drug retailers, sourcing, traits of groups and races, area distribution, changes of variety, usage styles and criminal problem, so as to set up the analysis of drug crime patterns with drug market as the core. In addition, focus group discussions were held. Experts and officials from the circles of police, marine patrol, justice and administration were invited to introduce the general situation of drug consumer market, consumption tendency, pricing trend, drug varieties and resources, transportation channels and methods, manufacturers, relationship between drug dealing with other kinds of crimes, the change of drug dealing styles and the seizing of drugs, the interaction between them, the kinds of emerging drugs, and the situation of drug abuse. During the discussions, their experience on the past and present drug market and its future tendency were shared, which increases the reliability of the study.
Through the interviews for finding the characteristics of drug crimes, the research got the following results: telephone is mainly used for connection; the lowest risk principle is mainly chosen for dealing places; drug resources are most from smuggling import; dealing time is around the clock; dealing amount depends the relationship between two parts and the severe level of seizing drugs at that time; due to different areas and the kinds of drugs, usage status are also different, the main kinds of drugs are heroin and amphetamine; for dealing methods, cash transaction ranks first, barter trade second; main dealing experience is sharing their methods of avoiding been seized; money resource mainly comes from the income of drug dealing; relationship with other kinds of crimes is not obvious; carrying guns to protect themselves is popular; few of them join gangs; profit is high; the feelings about drug manufacturing process and jurisdiction and etc.
In addition, through the focus group discussions, the conclusions were drawn as the followings: on the respect of drug consumer market and pricing tendency, the first-degree drugs are the main trend of domestic market in recent years, and it has the trend of increasing gradually, which shows that the goal of ‘ Harmfulness Deduction Plan’ is correct; list the raw materials of the forth-degree under control, which is useful for the raw materials control o f drugs; the pricing of drugs changes with the law of supply and demand; on the respect of the kinds and resources o f drug, heroin is mainly from smuggling import, while synthetic drugs are mainly from smuggling and local manufacture, and both of them are on the way of international cooperation; transportation methods are mainly by air or sea; for the part of manufacturing works, local ones have already been able to manufacture drugs and developing towards international enterprises; the relationship between drug dealing and other kinds of crimes show that 70 percent crimes are related with drugs, and the combination of guns with drugs; first take drugs then sell drags, which has become a one-way journey for drug addicts; property crimes like rape, robbery, theft are easy to be the quickest way of drug addicts’ money resource; the methods of drug dealing will affect the results of seizing drugs; on the respect of the kinds and situation of emerging drugs and drug abuse, it has the traits of low pricing, low manufacturing cost, high profit, easy to transport and sell, and drug takers have no responsibility for crime, which lead the consumption of domestic new drugs to increase day by day. In addition, the analysis on the past and present drug market and the prediction of future tendency show that it is difficult to control the problem of drug crimes; the situation that methamphetamine and other emerging drugs are made in the country is becoming serious; the sources of drugs, emerging chemical synthetic drugs and consumer market are becoming more and more complicated and diversified; the demand for marijuana is increasing day by day; transnational amphetamine manufacture has transferred to Southeast Asia; and after the realization of three direct links of Jin Men, it is easy to be the transfer station of drugs between the mainland and Taiwan.
The study put forward 10 suggestions: master the source of drugs; check the channels of drugs; strengthen audio monitoring equipments, while protect privacy right at the same time; try to reduce the economical value of drugs; set up a expropriation system of property for drug criminals; eliminate the technology learning of manufacturing drugs; make the penalties for drug crimes and related crimes more serious; increase the effectiveness of seizing drugs; promote the implement of ‘Reference for Measurement of Punishment’ ; and breakthrough the difficulty of network inspection.
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