The Search for Rational Drug Control

Zimring, Franklin E.; Hawkins, Gordon J.

ISBN 10: 052141668X / ISBN 13: 9780521416689

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition, 219 pp., Hardcover silver titles to orig dark blue cloth Absolute minor shelfwear to DJbut this is A BRAND NEW BOOK UNUSED. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request. "The drug policy process in the United States is permenated with ideology, impervious to the lessons of history, and addicted to debating polar abstractions, such as drug decriminalization, rather than focusing on practical alternative to current policy. The book aims to improve the way in which American government officials think, talk, and act in the area of drug control.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Search for Rational Drug Control
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052141668X
• ISBN 13: 9780521416689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • social sciences

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Synopsis

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States. How are policy choices identified, debated and selected? How are the consequences of governmental policy measured and evaluated? How, if at all, do we learn from our mistakes? Zimring and Hawkins present different ways of understanding American drug policy and provide a foundation for an improved policy process. They argue that protection of children and youth should shape policy toward illicit crime, with attention to the fact that youth protection objectives may limit the effectiveness of some drug controls.

From the Back Cover

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States. How are policy choices identified, debated, and selected? How are the consequences of governmental policy measured and evaluated? How, if at all, do we learn from our mistakes? The first part of the book deals with four different ways of understanding drug policy in the United States. Chapter 1 examines drug control as ideology; Chapter 2 discusses the issues of definition and measurement; Chapter 3 provides a historical analysis of drug control; and Chapter 4 concerns drug control as an occasion for debating the proper role of the criminal law. Part Two provides a foundation for an improved policy process by discussing priority problems for drug control. Chapter 5 shows how the protection of children and youth should shape policy toward illicit drugs, with attention to the fact that youth protection objectives may properly limit the effectiveness of some drug controls. Chapter 6 explores the central but complex relationship between illicit drugs and predatory crime. Chapter 7 addresses the proper role of the federal government in drug control policy. A final chapter criticizes the current national drug control strategy and makes five suggestions for improving the drug control policy process.