A noted psychologist discusses the drug problem in America, focusing on the issue in urban areas to show how the problem has evolved and what can be done to stem the tide. By the author of Confronting Crime.
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Full of wisdom vital to our country's leaders, this powerful book argues that drug abuse is an endemic social problem that can be solved only by a program of social reconstruction that will deliver jobs, education and health care--not by either legalization of drugs or punishment of abusers. Criticizing those who describe the drug problem as classless, sociologist Currie ( Confronting Crime ) synthesizes research in the U.S. and in Europe to argue persuasively that drug abuse is linked to "conditions of mass social deprivation, economic marginality, and cultural and community breakdown." Citing long-term declines in economic opportunity and the collapse of the community infrastructure in inner cities, Currie advocates reduced penalties for most drug offenses, harsher sentences for dealers, more help for addicts in prison and an emphasis on community policing. With a skeptical look at treatment programs, he convincingly suggests recovery depends more on "the realistic possibilities for an alternative way of life."
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Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The failure of American drug policy is depressingly apparent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
endemic drug abuse, conventional drug war, endemic drug use, street drug culture, drug crisis, new heroin users, drug careers, young drug users, income deficit, deprived neighborhoods, many treatment programs, crack epidemic, addicted women, drug offenders, street addicts, many addicts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Puerto Rican, Los Angeles, Head Start, Harlem Hospital, Isidor Chein, General Accounting Office, George Vaillant, John Ball, Rethinking Criminal, San Francisco, World War, Geoffrey Pearson, Hamilton Park, Lessons Ignored, West Germany, Carl Taylor, Puerto Rico, South Bronx, Vietnam War, Ansley Hamid, Bay Ridge, Dan Waldorf, Family Center New!
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endemic drug abuse, conventional drug war, endemic drug use, street drug culture, drug crisis, new heroin users, drug careers, young drug users, income deficit, deprived neighborhoods, many treatment programs, crack epidemic, addicted women, drug offenders, street addicts, many addicts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Puerto Rican, Los Angeles, Head Start, Harlem Hospital, Isidor Chein, General Accounting Office, George Vaillant, John Ball, Rethinking Criminal, San Francisco, World War, Geoffrey Pearson, Hamilton Park, Lessons Ignored, West Germany, Carl Taylor, Puerto Rico, South Bronx, Vietnam War, Ansley Hamid, Bay Ridge, Dan Waldorf, Family Center New!
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- Living With on 8 pages
- Dope and Trouble by Elliott Currie on 5 pages
- The New Heroin Users by Geoffrey Pearson on 5 pages
- Taking Care of Business by Bobby W. Johnson on 4 pages
- Dangerous Society by Carl S. Taylor on 4 pages
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- Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice by Nancy Campbell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Essential Criminology Reader by Stuart Henry on page 306, and Back Matter
- Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization Debate (Contemporary Social Issues) by Erich Goode on page 33, and Back Matter
- Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization (Tracking Globalization) by Willem van Schendel on page 126, and Back Matter
- Learning Limits: College Women, Drugs, and Relationships by Kimberly M. Williams on page 103, and Back Matter
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