Drugs: Policy, Social Costs, Crime, and Justice
©2011 |Pearson | Out of print
Lisa Anne Zilney
©2011 |Pearson | Out of print
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Incorporating fields of sociology, criminology, and public policy, this book provides a more complete understanding of the issues surrounding drugs. The primary purpose of this work is to teach students about the dynamics of drugs (both legal and illegal) in American society, while providing a look at historical law creation and current law enforcement. Unique coverage includes topics such as the history of drugs in the U.S., the integral role of race in the creation of drug laws, the elaboration of the global trade in drugs, the U.S. drug control policies and the impact of the U.S. drug war on international relations.
For courses in Drugs & Society.
Incorporating fields of sociology, criminology, and public policy, this book provides a more complete understanding of the issues surrounding drugs. The primary purpose of this work is to teach students about the dynamics of drugs (both legal and illegal) in American society, while providing a look at historical law creation and current law enforcement. Unique coverage includes topics such as the history of drugs in the U.S., the integral role of race in the creation of drug laws, the elaboration of the global trade in drugs, the U.S. drug control policies and the impact of the U.S. drug war on international relations.
Features
Incorporates observations from sociology, criminology, and public policy–throughout the text.
Includes more on U.S. drug control policies, the impact of U.S. laws on international relations and other nations approaches to drugs–see Part IV.
Emphasizes the U.S. drug war domestically and globally.
Emphasizes the creation of drug laws.
Includes real-life segments and human interest stories–at the beginning of each chapter.
In-text features include:
1. Framing Drugs and Their Use
PART I: STUDYING DRUG USE
2. Creating the Problem of Drug Use
3. Explaining Drug Use
4. Researching Drug Use
PART II: CLASSIFYING DRUG USE
5. Legal Drugs
6. Medical Drugs
7. Illegal Drugs
PART III: THEI HISTORY AND EFFECTS OF DRUG USE
8. A Legal History of Illicit Drugs in America
9. Drugs and Crime
10. Drugs and Other Collateral Damage
Authored by Lauren M. Caravaglia, MSW, LSW
PART IV: CONTROLLING DRUG USE
11. U.S. War on Drugs
12. U.S. Drug Control Through Prevention
13. U.S. Drug Control Through Treatment
14. Alternative Approaches
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