Criminal Differentiation in Drug Crime: The French Experience

Among the crimes that are discriminated against in the criminal justice system are drug-related crimes. Important economic, social, health, etc. reasons for the discriminatory treatment of the criminal justice system in this regard have become inevitable. This has evolved over time from a variety of differentiated strategies. Hence, today we see various manifestations of differentiation in the context of criminal law. Sometimes different approaches are taken in terms of criminal proceedings against specific persons or crimes, and sometimes in terms of criminalization and punishment, persons or crimes are treated in a special-different way. France is one of the countries that has tried to achieve its predetermined goals in the field of drugs by adopting a differentiated and targeted criminal policy. This has provided complete multilateralism in the context of strict differentiation to supportive differentiation. In this paper, with a descriptive-analytical approach, the criminal policy strategies of this country against drugs are analyzed.