Crack In America

Demon Drugs and Social Justice

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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"Crack in America" is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in its historical context - as the latest in a long line of demonized drugs - and it examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right. Most important, it uses crack and the crack scare as windows onto America's larger drug and drug policy problems. Written by a team of veteran drug researchers in medicine, law, and the social sciences, this book provides the most comprehensive, penetrating, and original analysis of the crack problem to date. It reviews the social pharmacology of crack and offers rich ethnographic case studies of crack binging, addiction, and sales. It explores crack's different impacts on whites, blacks, the middle class, and the poor, and explains why crack was always much less of a problem in other countries such as Canada, Australia, and The Netherlands."Crack in America" helps readers understand why the United States has the most repressive, expensive, and yet least effective drug policy in the Western world. It discusses the ways politicians and the media generated the crack scare as the centerpiece of the War on Drugs. It catalogues the costs of the War on Drugs for civil liberties, situates crack use and sales in the political economy of the inner cities in the 1980s, and shows how the drug war led to the most massive wave of imprisonment in U.S. history. Finally, it explains why the failures of drug prohibition have led to the emergence of the harm reduction movement and other opposition forces that are changing the face of U.S. drug policy.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-09-01
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor359
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520202429

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LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLESACKNOWLEDGMENTSCONTRIBUTORS1. Crack in Context: America's Latest Demon DrugCraig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine2. The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in the Crack ScareCraig Reinarman and Harry G. LevinePART I • MYTHS AND REALITIES3· In Search of Horatio Alger:Culture and Ideology in the Crack EconomyPhillipe Bourgois4· The Contingent Call of the Pipe:Bingeing and Addiction Among Heavy Cocaine SmokersCraig Reinarman, Dan Waldorf, Sheigla B. Murphy, Harry G. Levine5· Two Women Who Used Cocaine Too Much:Class, Race, Gender, Crack, and CokeSheigla B. Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum6. Crack and Homicide in New York City:A Case Study in the Epidemiology of ViolencePaul] Goldstein, Henry H. Brownstein, Patrick] Ryan, Patricia A. Bellucci7. The Social Pharmacology of Smokeable Cocaine:Not All It's Cracked Up To BeJohn P. Morgan and Lynn ZimmerPART II • CRACK IN COMPARABLE SOCIETIES8. Crack Use in Canada: A Distant American CousinYuet W. Cheung and Patricia G. Ericksong. Crack in Australia: Why Is There No Problem?Stephen K. Mugford10. Crack in the Netherlands: Effective Social Policy Is Effective Drug PolicyPeter D. A. CohenPART III • THE PRICE OF REPRESSION11. "When Constitutional Rights Seem Too Extravagant To Endure":The Crack Scare's Impact on Civil Rights and LibertiesIra Glasser and Loren Siegel12. The Pregnancy Police Fight the War on DrugsLoren Siegel13. Pattern, Purpose, and Race in the Drug War:The Crisis of Credibility in Criminal JusticeTroy Duster14. Drug Prohibition in the U.S.: Costs, Consequences, and AlternativesEthan A. NadelmannPART IV • FROM PUNITIVE PROHIBITIONTO HARM REDUCTION15. Punitive Prohibition in AmericaCraig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine16. The Cultural Contradictions of Punitive ProhibitionCraig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine17. Real Opposition, Real Alternatives:Reducing the Harms of Drug Use and Drug PolicyCraig Reinarman and Harry G. LevineEpilogue. We've Been Here Before:Excerpts from the 1967 Report of the Task Force onNarcotics and Drug Abuse of the President's Commission on LawEnforcement and the Administration of justiceSUBJECT INDEXNAME INDEX