New approaches to drug policies : a time for change /: a time for change. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marten W. Brienen and Jonathan D. Rosen.
• Editors: Brienen, Marten W, 1971-; Rosen, Jonathan D
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 362.2915610973; Narcotic laws -- United States; Drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States; Drug traffic -- United States; Drug control -- United States; Criminology; Public Policy/General; Drug & substance abuse: social aspects; Crime & criminology; Organized crime; Drugs trade / drug trafficking
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137451002; 1137451009
• Related ISBNs: 9781137450982
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.