Crack in America Demon Drugs and Social Justice

Name: Crack in America Demon Drugs and Social Justice
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ISBN: 9780520202429

ISBN-10: 0520202422

ISBN-13: 9780520202429

Edition: 1998

Authors: Craig Reinarman, Harry G. Levine

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Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in its historical context--as the latest in a long line of demonized drugs--and it examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right. 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,…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 359
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Craig Reinarman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


Contributors



Crack in Context: America's Latest Demon Drug




The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in the Crack Scare




In Search of Horatio Alger: Culture and Ideology in the Crack Economy




The Contingent Call of the Pipe: Bingeing and Addiction Among Heavy Cocaine Smokers




Two Women Who Used Cocaine Too Much: Class, Race, Gender, Crack, and Coke




Crack and Homicide in New York City: A Case Study in the Epidemiology of Violence




The Social Pharmacology of Smokeable Cocaine: Not All It's Cracked Up To Be




Crack Use in Canada: A Distant American Cousin




Crack in Australia: Why Is There No Problem?




Crack in the Netherlands: Effective Social Policy Is Effective Drug Policy




"When Constitutional Rights Seem Too Extravagant To Endure": The Crack Scare's Impact on Civil Rigths and Liberties




The Pregnancy Police Fight the War on Drugs




Pattern, Purpose, and Race in the Drug War: The Crisis of Credibility in Criminal Justice




Drug Prohibition in the U.S.: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives




Punitive Prohibition in America




The Cultural Contradictions of Punitive Prohibition




Real Opposition, Real Alternatives: Reducing the Harms of Drug Use and Drug Policy



Epilogue: We've Been Here Before: Excerpts from the 1967 Report of the Task Force on Narcotics and Drug Abuse of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice


Subject Index


Name Index