Crack In America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (581 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520202422 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 359 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Finally, it explains why the failures of drug prohibition have led to the emergence of the harm reduction movement and other opposition forces that are changing the face of U.S. Most important, it uses crack and the crack scare as windows onto America's larger drug and drug policy problems.Written by a team of veteran drug researchers in medicine, law, and the social sciences, this book provides the most comprehensive, penetrating, and original analysis of the crack problem to date. It catalogues the costs of the War on Drugs for civil liberties, situates crack use and sales in the political economy of the inner cities in the 1980s, and shows how the drug war led to the most massive wave of imprisonment in U.S. Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. It discusses the ways politicians and the media generated the crack scare as the centerpiece of the War on Drugs. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new
A Customer said The book is well-written, clear-sighted and informative. In Crack in America, Reinerman and Levine have brought together a wealth of facts and expertise. The authors' chapters are well-written, and hardhitting. Their arguments are carefully composed, and the authors present sensible alternative models. The editors and their contributors have obviously spent time and effort researching the medical, legal and social components of drugs in America and elsewhere. Reinerman, . This book is great I'm telling you this book is really enlightening and shocking. You won't find a better laid argument against our nation's drug policies. Must Read!. Good smily Very accurate info on crack, it is clear that they know what they are talking about in regards to the subject.
"Thoroughly researched and expertly writtenthe definitive book on crack."--"In These Times