Situational Prevention of Drug Production in Afghanistan

For the production and cultivation of drugs, the simultaneous and fulfillment of the three elements of the perpetrator with the motivation, skills and tools necessary to commit the crime and the existence of an unprotected target are necessary. Not all potential criminals can be identified so that their desire and motivation for committing the crime of drug trafficking, and especially its production and cultivation, can be tried, suppressed and punished. It is also impossible to prohibit all the tools and means of committing a crime in practice. Therefore, the only way to fight is to reduce the opportunities for criminals to commit a crime, which is referred to in the criminology literature as “situational prevention”. The present study is based on a descriptive-analytical method and is based on library sources. The findings of the present study show that the guidelines for the prevention, prohibition and punishment of drug trafficking in national and international documents have given priority to preventive responses and the Afghan legislator has prescribed examples of social, situational and criminal prevention in this regard. Measures to control the activities of drug traffickers regarding the production, distribution and export of drugs, the prohibition of any type of cooperation with drug producers and traffickers, changing the location of land under drug cultivation to useful plants, the establishment of a ministry, a special court and a high commission for combating narcotics are among the results of this investigation into the situational preventive measures against drug trafficking and production.