The search for rational drug control
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The search for rational drug control
（An Earl Warren Legal Institute study）
Cambridge University Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-211) and index
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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 section deals with four different ways of understanding American drug policy: drug control as ideology, drugs as an issue of definition and measurement, an historical analysis of drug control, and finally, drug control as an occasion for debating the proper role of the criminal law. Zimring and Hawkins also discuss priority problems for drug control 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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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