New approaches to drug policies
Subtitle: a time for change
By: edited by Jonathan D. Rosen, Marten W. Brienen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137450982
Subjects: Drug traffic; Narcotic laws; Drugs; Drug control; Law and legislation; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
Description: "The war on drugs led by the United States has failed: drugs remain purer, cheaper and more readily available than when the war on drugs began in 1971. The drug war has also resulted in extreme levels of violence as drug traffickers and organized criminals compete for control of territory. Prohibitionist policies have destroyed the lives of millions of people as prisons warehouse drug offenders. This important volume represents an effort to map new approaches to drug policies. The contributors write from various disciplinary backgrounds and provide crucial insights on a wide-range of topics, including the gang-drug nexus, delinquency, legalization, trafficking, decriminalization, intervention programs and prison reform. The volume also provides a number of policy solutions and alternatives to the current drug strategies"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; Marten W. Brienen and Jonathan D. Rosen; title: PART I: CASE STUDIES; title: 1. The Drug War's Damaging Impact on Mexico and Its Neighbors; Ted Galen Carpenter; title: 2. Trends in Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Brazil; Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich; title: 3. The War on Drugs in Colombia: A History of Failure; Jonathan D. Rosen; title: 4. Understated Yet Turbulent: Narcotics Trafficking and the Criminalization of Guinea-Bissau; Bradford R. McGuinn; title: PART II: THEMES; title: 5. Drug Trafficking and the Street: An Anthropological View; J. Byran Page; title: 6. Delinquency and Drug Use in the U.S.; Roger G. Dunham and Ana Maria Lobos; title: 7. The Gang-Drug Nexus: Violence, Rhetoric, and Suppression in an FBI Safe Streets Task Force; Susan A. Phillips; title: 8. A Resounding Success or a Disastrous Failure: Re-examining the Interpretation of Evidence on the Portuguese Decriminalisation of Illicit Drugs; Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes and Alex Stevens; title: PART III: POLICY SOLUTIONS; title: 9. Drug Use Among American Adolescents: An Examination of Prevention and Intervention Programs; Keri O'Neal and Steven L. West; title: 10. The Legalization Debate: Mapping Change and Trends in the United States; Hanna Samir Kassab; title: 11. A Change in the Approach to the Drug Problem in the Americas; Betty Horwitz; title: 12. Enough is Enough: The Need for Prison Reform in the U.S.; Jonathan D. Rosen and Vanessa Rayan; title: 13. The "War on Drugs": A Failed Paradigm; Fida Mohammad and Gregory Fulkerson.