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 Drugs, Crime, and Justice Contemporary Perspectives, Second Edition
Larry K. Gaines and Peter B. Kraska
The issues of drugs, crime, and justice are important and complex. Untangling the web of facts and fiction about drugs is a requisite foundation for understanding how the criminal justice system be-came the front line of attack for an intractable social problem. The articles in this collection address numerous dimensions of the use of mind-altering substances, providing the necessary background for understanding current policy and for considering possible avenues for change. What will be the costs and benefits of new policies to which groups? What price are we willing to pay for what benefits? How do we balance economic costs and human casualties? There are unquestionably harmful effects from some drug use: physical impairments, criminal acts to pay for drugs, unsafe streets, and possible overdoses. There are also harmful effects from the drug war: uneven application of laws, prisons overflowing with nonviolent offenders, erosion of civil rights, and enormous expenditures on punishment that consume resources for treatment. Sorting through alternatives requires the ability to look past conditioned responses. If we don’t find a way to reframe the discussion of substance abuse, our children will find the twenty-first century repeating the same mistakes as the twentieth.
 $32.95 list, 410 pages 10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-217-2 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-217-4 © 2003
“Excellent combination of criminology and drug issues in the justice system. Raises many important questions in the current political and social debate.” — Jerry Lowney, Carroll College “A first-rate collection of readings on the topic of drugs and crime.” — Erich B. Goode, University of Maryland “An excellent compilation of some classic works in the field. Some of the best work I’ve ever seen in over 20 years in the drug education field.” — R. Lamarine, California State University Table of Contents
Part I. DRUGS IN CONTEXT 1. The American Experience with Stimulants and Opiates (David F. Musto) 2. The Psychopharmacology and Prevalence of Drugs (Larry K. Gaines) 3. The Next Panic (Philip Jenkins) Part II. LINKING DRUGS AND CRIME 4. The Drugs-Crime Relationship: An Analytical Framework (Duane C. McBride and Clyde B. McCoy) 5. Drugs, Alcohol, and Homicide (Kathleen Auerhahn and Robert Nash Parker) 6. Prostitutes on Crack Cocaine: Addiction, Utility, and Marketplace Economics (Thomas E. Feucht) Part III. THE DRUG INDUSTRY 7. The Youth Gangs, Drugs, and Violence Connection (James C. Howell and Scott H. Decker) 8. The Distribution of Illegal Drugs at the Retail Level: The Street Dealers (George F. Rengert) 9. Reefer Madness in Bluegrass Country: Community Structure and Roles in the Rural Kentucky Marijuana Industry (Sandra Riggs Hafley and Richard Tewksbury) 10. Crack to Heroin?: Drug Markets and Transition (Bruce A. Jacobs) 11. Citizens and Outlaws: The Private Lives and Public Lifestyles of Women in the Illicit Drug Economy (Patricia Morgan and Karen Ann Joe) Part IV. POLICING DRUGS 12. The Police and Drugs (Mark H. Moore and Mark A. R. Kleiman) 13. Civil Asset Forfeiture: Past, Present, and Future (John Worrall) 14. The Military as Drug Police: Exercising the Ideology of War (Peter B. Kraska) Part V. TREATING THE DRUG OFFENDER 15. The Failure of Drug Education (D. M. Gorman) 16. Drug Courts: What Is Their Future? (Dale K. Sechrest) 17. Correctional Alternatives for Drug Offenders in an Era of Overcrowding (Todd R. Clear, Val B. Clear, and Anthony A. Braga) Part VI. PERSPECTIVES ON THE DRUG PROBLEM 18. Drugs in Schools: Myths and Realities (Peter J. Venturelli) 19. The Wrong Race, Committing Crime, Doing Drugs, and Maladjusted for Motherhood: The Nation’s Fury over “Crack Babies” (Enid Logan) 20. Alcohol and Tobacco: The Real Dangerous Drugs? (Erich Goode)
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