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Debating the Drug War

Author : Michael Rosino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315295156
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Debating the Drug War written by Michael Rosino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since President Nixon coined the phrase, the "War on Drugs" has presented an important change in how people view and discuss criminal justice practices and drug laws. The term evokes images of militarization, punishment, and violence, as well as combat and the potential for victory. It is no surprise then that questions such as whether the "War on Drugs" has "failed" or "can be won" have animated mass media and public debate for the past 40 years. Through analysis of 30 years of newspaper content, Debating the Drug War examines the social and cultural contours of this heated debate and explores how proponents and critics of the controversial social issues of drug policy and incarceration frame their arguments in mass media. Additionally, it looks at the contemporary public debate on the "War on Drugs" through an analysis of readers’ comments drawn from the comments sections of online news articles. Through a discussion of the findings and their implications, the book illuminates the ways in which ideas about race, politics, society, and crime, and forms of evidence and statistics such as rates of arrest and incarceration or the financial costs of drug policies and incarceration are advanced, interpreted, and contested. Further, the book will bring to light how people form a sense of their racial selves in debates over policy issues tied to racial inequality such as the "War on Drugs" through narratives that connect racial categories to concepts such as innocence, criminality, free will, and fairness. Debating the Drug War offers readers a variety of concepts and theoretical perspectives that they can use to make sense of these vital issues in contemporary society.

Drug War Politics

Author : Eva Bertram
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520918047
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Drug War Politics written by Eva Bertram and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-07-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics. It demonstrates how, instead of learning from our failures, we duplicate and reinforce them in the same flawed policies. The authors examine the "politics of denial" that has led to this catastrophic predicament and propose a basis for a realistic and desperately needed solution. Domestic and foreign drug wars have consistently fallen short because they are based on a flawed model of force and punishment, the authors show. The failure of these misguided solutions has led to harsher get-tough policies, debilitating cycles of more force and punishment, and a drug problem that continues to escalate. On the foreign policy front, billions of dollars have been wasted, corruption has mushroomed, and human rights undermined in Latin America and across the globe. Yet cheap drugs still flow abundantly across our borders. At home, more money than ever is spent on law enforcement, and an unprecedented number of people—disproportionately minorities—are incarcerated. But drug abuse and addiction persist. The authors outline the political struggles that help create and sustain the current punitive approach. They probe the workings of Washington politics, demonstrating how presidential and congressional "out-toughing" tactics create a logic of escalation while the criticisms and alternatives of reformers are sidelined or silenced. Critical of both the punitive model and the legalization approach, Drug War Politics calls for a bold new public health approach, one that frames the drug problem as a public health—not a criminal—concern. The authors argue that only by situating drug issues in the context of our fundamental institutions—the family, neighborhoods, and schools—can we hope to provide viable treatment, prevention, and law enforcement. In its comprehensive investigation of our long, futile battle with drugs and its original argument for fundamental change, this book is essential for every concerned citizen.

After the War on Drugs

Author : Steve Rolles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955642807
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book After the War on Drugs written by Steve Rolles and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legalize It?

Author : Arnold S. Trebach
Publisher : Univ Publ Assn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Legalize It? written by Arnold S. Trebach and published by Univ Publ Assn. This book was released on 1993 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it time to legalize drugs? The authors argue both sides.

The Drug Legalization Debate

Author : James A. Inciardi
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761906908
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Drug Legalization Debate written by James A. Inciardi and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-08-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely revised and updated secong edition of the Drug Legalization Debate continues to address, and offer alternatives to, the major issues.

The War on Drugs in the Americas

Author : Christopher M. White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317359208
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The War on Drugs in the Americas written by Christopher M. White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War on Drugs in the Americas brings together the history of the War on Drugs in the US and Latin America to reveal how, since 1914, when the US first criminalized the non-medical use of narcotics, the trade and violence associated with drugs has developed throughout the hemisphere. This concise and accessible book provides an overview of the geographic, historical, economic, and social dimensions of the War on Drugs throughout the past century. Notable figures, popular drugs, competing theories, and significant historical events take center stage, as the story moves between macro analysis and micro details. Aside from infamous cartel leaders like Colombia’s Pablo Escobar and Mexico’s El Chapo Guzman, the reader learns about equally important but lesser-known Latin American and US traffickers. In addition to counter-narcotics giants, readers learn about Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), DEA agents working to fight pharmaceutical companies and distributors, cutting-edge researchers and politicians that have pushed for and against the war. The War on Drugs in the Americas is essential reading for students studying Latin American History, International Studies, and Politics through its clear and objective narrative of the origins, impact, and debates behind the War on Drugs in the US and Latin America.

Drug War, American Style

Author : Jurg Gerber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815334057
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Drug War, American Style written by Jurg Gerber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A War that CanÕt Be Won

Author : Tony Payan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816530343
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A War that CanÕt Be Won written by Tony Payan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” this sobering book offers views of the “narco wars” from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border. With evidence newly obtained through freedom-of-information inquiries in Mexico, it proposes practical solutions to a seemingly intractable crisis.

To End the War on Drugs - Policymakers Edition

Author : Dean Becker
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500326340
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book To End the War on Drugs - Policymakers Edition written by Dean Becker and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To End The War on Drugs was written by long time Pacifica reporter Dean Becker, a former law enforcement officer who aligns with LEAP as a speaker for the group and with the Baker Institute as a research associate. The book has been revised from the first edition to include the thanks of the DEA and Attorney General Eric Holder along with forewords from both the James A. Baker III Institute and the 150,000 strong LEAP organization. In the pages of this book you find the acumen of more than 100 experts on the drug war who were guests on Becker's radio shows. Doctors, scientists, cops, wardens, prosecutors, politicians, parents, prisoners and many others with diverse perspectives all come to the conclusion that the drug war does not work, holds no water, is destructive with absolutely no redeeming value. It is our hope that the gift of these books to these officials will indeed bring forth a mutual agreement, an absolution for all. We seek a debate this winter, we are requesting that the President, the House and the Senate each select a delegate to form a panel to debate Major Neill Franklin and Dean Becker. What is the benefit of drug war? That is our real concern. Currently under the US-mandated policy of drug prohibition, our terrorist enemies can make billions of dollars each year by simply growing the flowers we fear. Cartels in Latin America make tens of billions by corrupting American law enforcement. More than 30,000 US gangs make tens of billions of dollars a year by enticing and selling contaminated drugs to our kids. 40 million arrests later, with snitches and informants, no-knock warrants, door-bashing, dog-killing, child -threatening, midnight raids with overwhelming force and weaponry, most often for a small, truly infinitesimal bag of some diluted stimulant or downer. Ask anyone in law enforcement or behind the bench to tell the truth and they will admit that despite the expenditure of way over a trillion US taxpayer dollars and hundreds of millions of law enforcement hours we have never stopped even one determined child from getting their hands on drugs. What is the benefit?

The War on Drugs

Author : David Farber
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479811424
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The War on Drugs written by David Farber and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the history and legacy of the "War on Drugs" Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges—most of them involving cannabis—and nearly 500,000 Americans are currently incarcerated for drug offenses. Today, as a response to the dire human and financial costs, Americans are fast losing their faith that a War on Drugs is fair, moral, or effective. In a rare multi-faceted overview of the underground drug market, featuring historical and ethnographic accounts of illegal drug production, distribution, and sales, The War on Drugs: A History examines how drug war policies contributed to the making of the carceral state, racial injustice, regulatory disasters, and a massive underground economy. At the same time, the collection explores how aggressive anti-drug policies produced a “deviant” form of globalization that offered economically marginalized people an economic life-line as players in a remunerative transnational supply and distribution network of illicit drugs. While several essays demonstrate how government enforcement of drug laws disproportionately punished marginalized suppliers and users, other essays assess how anti-drug warriors denigrated science and medical expertise by encouraging moral panics that contributed to the blanket criminalization of certain drugs. By analyzing the key issues, debates, events, and actors surrounding the War on Drugs, this timely and impressive volume provides a deeper understanding of the role these policies have played in making our current political landscape and how we can find the way forward to a more just and humane drug policy regime.

The War on Drugs

Author : Stephen P. Thompson
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War on Drugs written by Stephen P. Thompson and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents differing opinions on a range of social, political, and legal issues associated with the war on drugs including the merits of incarceration, treatment programs, drug education programs, and legalization.

Drugs and Democracy in Latin America

Author : Coletta Youngers
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588262547
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Drugs and Democracy in Latin America written by Coletta Youngers and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the U.S. has failed to reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin entering its borders, it has, however, succeeded in generating widespread, often profoundly damaging, consequences on democracy and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Drug War Deadlock

Author : Laura E. Huggins
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press Publi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drug War Deadlock written by Laura E. Huggins and published by Hoover Institution Press Publi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse collection of readings from scholarly journals, government reports, think tank studies, newspapers, and books that offers a comprehensive look at the drug debate. With each section featuring opposing articles written by many of the foremost authorities in their respective fields, the book offers a concise view of the many divergent viewpoints surrounding drug policy in America.

Children of the Drug War

Author : Damon Barrett
Publisher : IDEA
ISBN 13 : 9781617700187
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Drug War written by Damon Barrett and published by IDEA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Description: A unique collection of original essays that investigates the impacts of the war on drugs on children and young people. With contributions from around the world and utilizing a wide range of styles and approaches including ethnographic studies, personal accounts and interviews, the book asks three fundamental questions: What have been the costs to children of the war on drugs? Is the protection of children from drugs a solid justification for current policies? What kinds of public fears and preconceptions exist in relation to drugs and the drug trade?

On Drugs

Author : David Lenson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816627103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book On Drugs written by David Lenson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been more than twenty years since President Nixon declared the War on Drugs. In On Drugs, David Lenson delivers a scathing indictment of this war as an effort based, like all attempts to eradicate "getting high", on an incomplete understanding of human nature. From lotus-eaters to hippies to crackheads, he contends, history has shown the state's inability to legislate the bloodstreams of its citizens. Lenson ventures beyond conventional genres to view the drug debate from the largely forgotten perspective of those who use drugs. In successfully walking the fine line between the antidrug hysteria of the 1980s and an advocacy of drug use, Lenson shatters the ban on debate regarding drugs enforced in the "Just Say No" campaign and reveals the myriad ways "straight society" demonizes the drug user. After considering several specific issues associated with drug use - including sex, violence, and money - Lenson concludes with his vision of the end of the Drug War by questioning the sense in condemning millions of Americans to lives of concealment and deceit.

Africa and the War on Drugs

Author : Neil Carrier
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848139691
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Africa and the War on Drugs written by Neil Carrier and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets, and narco-traffickers corrupting the state in Guinea-Bissau: these are some of the vivid images surrounding drugs in Africa which have alarmed policymakers, academics and the general public in recent years. In this revealing and original book, the authors weave these aspects into a provocative argument about Africa's role in the global trade and control of drugs. In doing so, they show how foreign-inspired policies have failed to help African drug users but have strengthened the role of corrupt and brutal law enforcement officers, who are tasked with halting the export of heroin and cocaine to European and American consumer markets. A vital book on an overlooked front of the so-called war on drugs.

Drug Wars and Coffeehouses

Author : David R. Mares
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Drug Wars and Coffeehouses written by David R. Mares and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on political economic ideas and analysis, the author examines the reasons behind the lack of international concensus on the most effective methods for dealing with international drug production, distribution and trade.