毒品犯罪的经济分析刍议

Economic Analysis on Drug Crimes

This article is focused on drug crimes, the authors make use of the latest results of economic research in economics to analyze the drug crimes and the punishments imposed upon such crimes. The purpose of this article is further understanding the theory and practice of criminal law from a different point of view. This article is divided into four parts. In the first part, the authors explain basic theoretical premises of economics, they held such a view that the social phenomena are economic phenomena, and the theory of economics can also be used in other area of social science. So it is reasonable to apply economic theory in the research of law. In the second part, the authors utilize the most fundamental law of economics, “the law of demand and supply” to explain the drug crimes and criminal policy. In the third part, the authors regard the drug as a kind of commodities. By analyzing the tributes of such a special commodity the authors want to explain that proper criminal policy must be applied to the drug as a commodity of low elasticity of demand. In the fourth part, the authors give some advices on the fields of the academic, the legislative and the judiciary to fulfill the economic approach to criminal law.