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: Rosen, Jonathan D; Brienen, Marten W, 1971-
• 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: Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 255 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 362.29/15610973; Criminology; Narcotic laws -- United States; Drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States; Drug traffic -- United States; Drug control -- United States; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Drugs trade -- drug trafficking; Violence in society; Drug & substance abuse: social aspects; Crime & criminology; Organized crime; Drug control; Drug traffic; Drugs -- Law and legislation; Narcotic laws; Crime; Social Science -- Criminology; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Central government policies; Public administration; Sociology; Organized crime; Social policy; Crime—Sociological aspects; Public policy; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137450999; 1137450991
• Related ISBNs: 1349567655; 9781349567652; 9781137450982; 1137450983
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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