Research Catalog

Title

Crack in America : demon drugs and social justice / edited by Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Reinarman, Craig.
• Levine, Harry Gene.

Description

xvi, 388 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Drug control > United States
• Crack (Drug) > United States
• United States
• Cocaine-Related Disorders
• Narcotics
• Cocaine abuse > United States
• Crack Cocaine
• Drugs and mass media > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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 -- 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 and Sheigla B. Murphy [et al.] -- 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 J. Goldstein, Henry H. Brownstein and Patrick J. Ryan [et al.] -- 7. The Social Pharmacology of Smokeable Cocaine: Not All It's Cracked Up To Be / John P. Morgan and Lynn Zimmer -- 8. Crack Use in Canada: A Distant American Cousin / Yuet W. Cheung and Patricia G. Erickson --
• 9. 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 -- 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 -- 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.

ISBN

• 0520202414 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520202422 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

96047765

OCLC

ocm35842613

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries