Railway Crime and Governance in 1927-1937:An Investigation Centering on Drug Trafficking Crime
Drug dealer make use of railway to transport drugs is a new drug trafficking method after the introduction of railway into China.During the rule of the Nanjing National Government,the groups that made use of the railway to traffic drugs included professional drug dealers and railway workers,and Japanese and Korean ronin.In terms of drug transport methods,drug dealer usually make use of a number of means,including carry-on drugs and railway transport,to transport opium and drugs.The national government and railway authorities have adopted several measures,such as promulgating anti-drug laws and punishing drug traf-fickers,to carry out the work of drug embargo in the railway transportation industry,which has played a positive role in curbing the circulation of opium and drugs.However,the resistance from the opium and drug interest groups and the corruption and dereliction of duty of the law enforcement force made the na-tional government achieve little effect in the rectification of the crime of drug transportation,and finally ended in failure in because Japan launched the full-scale invasion of China.
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