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- Book Title
- Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places (
- ISBN
- 9780521799973
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Psychology
- Publication Name
- Drug War Heresies : Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Law Enforcement, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Psychopathology / Addiction
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Series
- Rand Studies in Policy Analysis Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 23.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
052179997X
ISBN-13
9780521799973
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038281218
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Publication Name
Drug War Heresies : Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places
Language
English
Subject
Law Enforcement, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Psychopathology / Addiction
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Psychology
Series
Rand Studies in Policy Analysis Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-045451
Reviews
"MacCoun and Reuter's book turns out to be first-rate scholarship. It is an incredibly carefully researched, thoughtful book--far and away the best scholarship I have ever encountered on the subject. This is a book I would recommend to economists interested in researching the area, to those just generally interested in the topic, and to cocktail party bores who mindlessly preach either the necessity of legalization or the inevitability of social ruin if legalization were to occur." Journal of Economic Literature, 'This book is without doubt the most scholarly and significant contribution to what has become a passionate but circular debate ... overall this is an experts' expert book and it is likely to become the classic text on drug policy reform.' British Medical Journal, "...an enormously important book. This is especially true because drug policy is a field where tendentiousness prevails, with the exception of a very few other works...for anybody seriously and earnestly concerned about drug policy, it is likely to become indispensible." The Nation, "...the largest, most sweeping comparative investigations of the contemporary use, regulation, and policing of various drugs and addictive behaviors..." amazon.com, 'This book is without doubt the most scholarly and significant contribution to what has become a passionate but circular debate … overall this is an experts' expert book and it is likely to become the classic text on drug policy reform.' British Medical Journal, "MacCoun and Reuter offer a refreshing, even unique, overview based more on data than preconceptions, and paying attention to aspects of this important issue that are generaly ignored.... Although no easy answers are offered, there are good and welcome guidelines on how to address the unavoidable difficult questions." Choice, "The book is well written, and it provides a fresh perspective on several options for drug policy. It certainly gives a valuable perspective on these enduring issues." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
364.1770973
Table Of Content
1. Preface and overview; 2. Drug prohibition: American style; 3. The debate; 4. Philosophical underpinnings; 5. How does prohibition affect drug use?; 6. How does prohibition affect drug harms?; 7. Other vices: prostitution and gambling; 8. Other substances: alcohol and cigarettes; 9. US experience with legal cocaine and heroin; 10. Learning from European experiences; 11. Cannabis policies in the Netherlands; 12. Harm reduction in Europe; 13. Summary of the evidence and a framework for assessment; 14. Projecting the consequences of alternative regimes; 15. Obstacles to moving beyond the drug war.
Synopsis
This meticulously researched study represents the first effort to provide a nonpartisan and objective analysis of how the United States should approach the drug legalization question. It surveys what is known about the effects of different drug policies in Western Europe and what happened when cocaine and heroin were legal in the US a century ago. The book shows that legalization involves different tradeoffs between health and crime and the interests of the inner city minority communities and the middle class. The book explains why it is so difficult to accomplish substantial reform of drug policy., The first effort to provide a nonpartisan and objective analysis of how the US should approach the drug legalization question. The book shows that legalization involves different tradeoffs between health and crime and the interests of the inner city minority communities and the middle class., This book provides the first multidisciplinary and nonpartisan analysis of how the United States should decide on the legal status of cocaine, heroin and marijuana. It draws on data about the experiences of Western European nations with less punitive drug policies as well as new analyses of America's experience with legal cocaine and heroin a century ago, and of America's efforts to regulate gambling, prostitution, alcohol and cigarettes. It offers projections on the likely consequences of a number of different legalization regimes and shows that the choice about how to regulate drugs involves complicated tradeoffs among goals and conflict among social groups. The book presents a sophisticated discussion of how society should deal with the uncertainty about the consequences of legal change. Finally, it explains, in terms of individual attitudes toward risk, why it is so difficult to accomplish substantial reform of drug policy in America.
LC Classification Number
HV5825 .M225 2001
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