Search for Rational Drug Control

Klappentext This book is about the process of making drug control policy. How are policy choices identified, debated, and made in an atmosphere of intense concern? How are the consequences of governmental policy measured and evaluated? How, if at all, do we learn from our mistakes? We undertook this project convinced that just as much as we need new drug policies, we need a new drug policy process to create an environment in which alternatives can be rationally debated. Zusammenfassung This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. The Drug Problem: Introduction; 1. Ideology and policy - a look at the national drug control strategy; 2. What is a drug? and other basic issues; 3. Prohibitions and the lessons of history; 4. The wrong question: critical notes on the decriminalization debate; Part II. The Drug Control Policy Process: Introduction; 5. The universal proposition - children and drug control policy; 6. Drug control policy and street crime; 7. The federal role in a national drug strategy; 8. Memorandum to a new drug czar; Appendix; References.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gordon Hawkins, Zimring, Franklin E. Zimring, Franklin E. Hawkins Zimring
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.08.1995
• EAN: 9780521558822
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55882-2
• Seiten: 240
• Serie: Earl Warren Legal Institute St
• Themen: Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Illness & addiction: social aspects, United States of America, USA, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Ethical issues and debates, Police and security services