Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research
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Department of Military Law, Faculty of International Relations and Law, Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

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• Research Article   
  Legal-Linguistic Understanding of the Concept of Illegal Drug Trafficking: Theoretical, Administrative and Criminal Aspects
  Author(s): Olena Stanislavivna Osetrova*, Svitlana Volodumurivna Shaputko, Vladyslav Karelin, Vladyslav Serhiichuk and Artur Makarov
  
  Aim: The article carries out a comprehensive legal and linguistic study of the concept of “illegal drug business” through the prism of theoretical and legal, administrative and legal, and criminal law approaches. Methods: The methodological basis of the study is a complex of general scientific and special legal methods. The legal-linguistic method was used to establish the content and correlation of terms that characterize drug crime. Semantic analysis allowed us to determine the meaning of individual components of the concept of “illegal drug business” and establish their relationship. The formal-legal method was used to study the provisions of the criminal code of Ukraine, the code of Ukraine on administrative offenses, the law of Ukraine “On narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors” and ot.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4303/JDAR/236510

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