Sam Staley

Drug Policy and the Decline of the American City

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The drug trade is a growth industry in most major American cities, fueling devastated inner-city economies with revenues in excess of $100 billion. In this timely volume, Sam Staley provides a detailed, in-depth analysis of the consequences of current drug policies, focusing on the relationship between public policy and urban economic development and on how the drug economy has become thoroughly entwined in the urban economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138522473
• ISBN-10: 1138522473
• Artikelnr.: 69946825

Autorenporträt

Sam Staley

Inhaltsangabe

I: Institutions, Economic Growth, and the Modern City
1: Setting the Stage: Central City Decline and the Rise of the Drug Economy
2: Law, Order, and Economic Development in the Modern City
3: The Changing Values of the Central City
II: Foundations of the Drug Economy
4: Drug Use and Abuse in America
5: Drug Trafficking as an Understandable Market Response: Urban Youth and the Drug Economy
6: The Organization of the Drug Economy
III: Public Policy and the Drug Economy
7: The Drug War and the Growth of the Drug Economy
8: The Decriminalization Alternative
IV: Conclusion
9: Decriminalization, the Drug Economy, and the Future of American Cities