Illegal Drug Markets
Subtitle: From Research to Prevention Policy (Crime (Crime Prevention Studies) (Crime Prevention Studies)
Contributors: Mangai Natarajan (Editor); Mike Hough (Editor); J. M. Hough (Editor)
Publisher: Criminal Justice Press
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781881798255
Subjects: Causes & prevention of crime; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Social Science; Drug traffic; Sociology; Criminology; Prevention; Politics/International Relations; General; Distribution; Drugs; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Social Science / Criminology; Crime prevention; Drug Abuse; Drug control; Narcotics, Control of
First sentence: Although the federal funding process severely inhibited and delayed systematic research about crack abuse and sales during the 1980s (Holden, 1989), later research documented that the crack era exploded in 1984-86 in New York and around the United States.