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1. Crack in Context: America's Latest Demon Drug
Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine
2. The Crack Attack: Politics and Media in the Crack Scare
Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine
PART I • MYTHS AND REALITIES
3· In Search of Horatio Alger:
Culture and Ideology in the Crack Economy
Phillipe Bourgois
4· The Contingent Call of the Pipe:
Bingeing and Addiction Among Heavy Cocaine Smokers
Craig Reinarman, Dan Waldorf, Sheigla B. Murphy, Harry G. Levine
5· Two Women Who Used Cocaine Too Much:
Class, Race, Gender, Crack, and Coke
Sheigla B. Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum
6. Crack and Homicide in New York City:
A Case Study in the Epidemiology of Violence
Paul] Goldstein, Henry H. Brownstein, Patrick] Ryan, Patricia A. Bellucci
7. The Social Pharmacology of Smokeable Cocaine:
Not All It's Cracked Up To Be
John P. Morgan and Lynn Zimmer
PART II • CRACK IN COMPARABLE SOCIETIES
8. Crack Use in Canada: A Distant American Cousin
Yuet W. Cheung and Patricia G. Erickson
g. Crack in Australia: Why Is There No Problem?
Stephen K. Mugford
10. Crack in the Netherlands: Effective Social Policy Is Effective Drug Policy
Peter D. A. Cohen
PART III • THE PRICE OF REPRESSION
11. "When Constitutional Rights Seem Too Extravagant To Endure":
The Crack Scare's Impact on Civil Rights and Liberties
Ira Glasser and Loren Siegel
12. The Pregnancy Police Fight the War on Drugs
Loren Siegel
13. Pattern, Purpose, and Race in the Drug War:
The Crisis of Credibility in Criminal Justice
Troy Duster
14. Drug Prohibition in the U.S.: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives
Ethan A. Nadelmann
PART IV • FROM PUNITIVE PROHIBITION
TO HARM REDUCTION
15. Punitive Prohibition in America
Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine
16. The Cultural Contradictions of Punitive Prohibition
Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine
17. Real Opposition, Real Alternatives:
Reducing the Harms of Drug Use and Drug Policy
Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine
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
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About the author
Craig Reinarman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Harry G. Levine is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Summary
Focuses on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, this book offers fresh 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 examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right.
