Franklin E. Zimring

The Search for Rational Drug Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the process of making drug control policy. How are policy choices identified, debated, and made in an atmosphere of intense concern? How are the consequences of governmental policy measured and evaluated? How, if at all, do we learn from our mistakes? We undertook this project convinced that just as much as we need new drug policies, we need a new drug policy process to create an environment in which alternatives can be rationally debated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521558822
• ISBN-10: 0521558824
• Artikelnr.: 22059620

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The Drug Problem: Introduction
1. Ideology and policy - a look at the national drug control strategy
2. What is a drug? and other basic issues
3. Prohibitions and the lessons of history
4. The wrong question: critical notes on the decriminalization debate
Part II. The Drug Control Policy Process: Introduction
5. The universal proposition - children and drug control policy
6. Drug control policy and street crime
7. The federal role in a national drug strategy
8. Memorandum to a new drug czar
Appendix
References.