New Approaches to Drug Policies (eBook, PDF)

A Time For Change
Redaktion: Rosen, Jonathan D.; Brienen, Marten W.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The US-led war on drugs has failed: drugs remain purer, cheaper and more readily available than ever. Extreme levels of violence have also grown as drug traffickers and organized criminals compete for control of territory. This book points towards a number of crucial challenges, policy solutions and alternatives to the current drug strategies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137450999
• Artikelnr.: 43589684

Autorenporträt

Marten W. Brienen, Oklahoma State University, USA. Roger G. Dunham, University of Miami, USA. Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute, USA. Gregory Fulkerson, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA. Betty Horwitz, University of Miami, USA. Cailtin Elizabeth Hughes, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Australia. Hanna Samir Kassab, University of Miami, USA. Bradford R. McGuinn, University of Miami, USA. Fida Mohammed, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA. Keri K. O'Neal, California State University, USA. J. Bryan Page, University of Miami, USA. Susan A. Phillips, Pitzer College, USA. Vanessa Rayan, University of Miami, USA. Jonathan D. Rosen, Universidad del Mar, Mexico. Alex Stevens, University of Kent, UK. Steven L. West, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich, University of Miami, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Marten W. Brienen and Jonathan D. Rosen
PART I: CASE STUDIES
1. The Drug War's Damaging Impact on Mexico and Its Neighbors; Ted Galen
Carpenter
2. Trends in Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Brazil; Marcelo Rocha
e Silva Zorovich
3. The War on Drugs in Colombia: A History of Failure; Jonathan D. Rosen
4. Understated Yet Turbulent: Narcotics Trafficking and the Criminalization
of Guinea-Bissau; Bradford R. McGuinn
PART II: THEMES
5. Drug Trafficking and the Street: An Anthropological View; J. Byran Page
6. Delinquency and Drug Use in the U.S.; Roger G. Dunham and Ana Maria
Lobos
7. The Gang-Drug Nexus: Violence, Rhetoric, and Suppression in an FBI Safe
Streets Task Force; Susan A. Phillips
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
PART III: POLICY SOLUTIONS
9. Drug Use Among American Adolescents: An Examination of Prevention and
Intervention Programs; Keri O'Neal and Steven L. West
10. The Legalization Debate: Mapping Change and Trends in the United
States; Hanna Samir Kassab
11. A Change in the Approach to the Drug Problem in the Americas; Betty
Horwitz
12. Enough is Enough: The Need for Prison Reform in the U.S.; Jonathan D.
Rosen and Vanessa Rayan
13. The "War on Drugs": A Failed Paradigm; Fida Mohammad and Gregory
Fulkerson