Drugs, Crime, and Justice : Contemporary Perspectives

by Gaines, Larry K.; Kraska, Peter B.; Gaines, Larry K.; Kraska, Peter B.

• ISBN13: 9781577662174
• ISBN10: 1577662172
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(31)
Section I Drugs in Context
The American Experience with Stimulants and Opiates	32	(18)
David F. Musto
The Psychopharmacology and Prevalence of Drugs	50	(37)
Larry K. Gaines
The Next Panic	87	(13)
Philip Jenkins
Section II Linking Drugs and Crime
The Drugs-Crime Relationship: An Analytical Framework	100	(20)
Duane C. McBride
Clyde B. McCoy
Drugs, Alcohol, and Homicide	120	(15)
Kathleen Auerhahn
Robert Nash Parker
Prostitutes on Crack Cocaine: Addiction, Utility, and Marketplace Economics	135	(15)
Thomas E. Feucht
Section III The Drug Industry
The Youth Gangs, Drugs, and Violence Connection	150	(25)
James C. Howell
Scott H. Decker
The Distribution of Illegal Drugs at the Retail Level: The Street Dealers	175	(19)
George F. Rengert
Reefer Madness in Bluegrass County: Community Structure and Roles in the Rural Kentucky Marijuana Industry	194	(15)
Sandra Riggs Hafley
Richard Tewksbury
Crack to Heroin? Drug Markets and Transition	209	(22)
Bruce A. Jacobs
Citizens and Outlaws: The Private Lives and Public Lifestyles of Women in the Illicit Drug Economy	231	(17)
Patricia Morgan
Karen Ann Joe
Section IV Policing Drugs
The Police and Drugs	248	(20)
Mark H. Moore
Mark A. R. Kleiman
Civil Asset Forfeiture: Past, Present, and Future	268	(20)
John Worrall
The Military as Drug Police: Exercising the Ideology of War	288	(22)
Peter B. Kraska
Section V Treating the Drug Offender
The Failure of Drug Education	310	(8)
D. M. Gorman
Drug Courts: What Is Their Future?	318	(14)
Dale K. Sechrest
Correctional Alternatives for Drug Offenders in an Era of Overcrowding	332	(20)
Todd R. Clear
Val B. Clear
Anthony A. Braga
Section VI Perspectives on the Drug Problem
Drugs in Schools: Myths and Realities	352	(16)
Peter J. Venturelli
The Wrong Race, Committing Crime, Doing Drugs, and Maladjusted for Motherhood: The Nation's Fury over ``Crack Babies''	368	(15)
Enid Logan
Alcohol and Tobacco: The Real Dangerous Drugs?	383	(16)
Erich Goode
Index	399