Methodologic directions in criminalistic research for the offence of trafficking and illicit drug consumption

• Author: Petronela-Diana Ferariu, Valentina Avramescu
• Position: Legal Adviser, Company EuroAsia of Iasi, România/'Dimitrie Cantemir' University of Bucuresti, Faculty of Law, România
• Pages: 49-54

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, http://univagora.ro/jour/index.php/aijjs

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 2 (2019), pp. 49 - 54

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METHODOLOGIC DIRECTIONS IN CRIMINALISTIC RESEARCH

FOR THE OFFENCE OF TRAFFICKING AND ILLICIT DRUG

CONSUMPTION

P-D. FERARIU, V. AVRĂMESCU

Petronela-Diana FERARIU

Legal Adviser, Company EuroAsia of Iași, România,

diana.ferariu@gmail.com

Valentina AVRĂMESCU

”Dimitrie Cantemir” University of București, Faculty of Law, România,

valentina.avramescu@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

The criminal activity of trafficking and illicit drug use is developing rapidly, new

psychoactive substances are emerging at a rapid pace and represent a major threat to the

health and safety of individuals. The actual crime in the case of trafficking and illicit drug use

offence must be determined in terms of size the participants and causes. The distinction

between real crime and apparent crime is defined as the "dark number or hidden figure of

crime" (Rădulescu S., 1999, 189) The use of this concept is specifically used in the case of the

number of crimes committed and remained unknown to the society, for various reasons. In the

forensic investigation of the crime of trafficking and illicit drug use, the research activity is

carried out with great difficulties, because one of the forms of crime with the highest rate of

the dark number of crime and almost impossible to estimate is the illicit trafficking and

consumption of drugs, as victims are most often accomplice in this form of crime, and

establishing the diversity of substances that fall into the narcotic sphere is relative.

KEYWORDS: forensic research, drugs, psychoactive substances, drug trafficking,

illicit drug use.

INTRODUCTION:

Illicit drug trafficking and consumption is a form of criminality that is in the attention

of both national and international organisation and which must be effectively addressed and

combated by all countries whose persons are involved as perpetrators or victims of drug

trafficking crime. The scale of the current problem of narcotics goes beyond the control

power, constituting a threat both for the health and safety of the people and for the economic

and social order of the world. The main cause of drug trafficking and illicit drug trafficking is

the tendency of criminals to obtain significant illegal income, criminal activity being one of

the most profitable, being ranked, according to income, second in the world, after the

trafficking of weapons.

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: