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Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It : a Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs /
"Veteran trial judge and former federal prosecutor Judge James P. Gray believes drug prohibition remains one of our country's biggest failed policies. In this updated edition of his bestseller, Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What Can We Do About It, Judge Gray provides startling informa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
©2012.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Introduction
- pt. II. Our drug laws have failed
- 1. Past and present
- A historical perspective
- Emergence of the prison-industrial complex
- 2. Increased harm to communities
- Communities awash in illicit drugs
- Violence and corruption
- Domestic
- Foreign
- 3. Erosion of protections of the Bill of Rights: where's Paul Revere?
- 4. Increased harm to drug users
- Demonization
- Deterioration of health
- 5. Increased harm for the future
- Conspiracy theories
- Government policy: don't discuss it!
- pt. III. Options
- 6. Increased zero tolerance
- 7. Education
- 8. Drug treatment
- Rehabilitation
- Medicalization
- Needle-exchange programs
- Drug-substitution programs
- Drug maintenance programs
- 9. Deprofitization of drugs
- Legalization
- Decriminalization
- Regulated distribution
- 10. Federalism, not federalization
- pt. IV. What we can do about it
- Appendix A. Resolution
- Appendix B. Government Commission reports and other public inquiries.