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- Title
- Drugs and crime : evaluating public policy initiatives / edited by Doris Layton MacKenzie, Craig D. Uchida.
- Publication
- Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1994.
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| Text | Use in library | HV5825 .M23 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 316 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- (Publisher-supplied data) "Choose Drugs and Crime when you want a critical overview of public policy issues on law enforcement and regulation: It focuses on major policy initiatives and the implications of research conducted on their effectiveness. The evaluations of policy results are practical and focus on verifiable results."--The Midwest Book Review Addressing critical areas of drug control and system improvement, Drugs and Crime provides a clear and comprehensive examination of policy relevant research. Editors, MacKenzie and Uchida enlist outstanding experts in the field to produce a volume that explores the major problems related to drug trafficking and use. Each chapter focuses on a major policy initiative and discusses the problem area, policies designed to address the problem, research on the effectiveness of the policies, and policy implications of the research. Just how effective is the criminal justice system in its response to drug use by children and adolescents, prison overcrowding, backlog in the courts, increased criminal activity, youths in the drug distribution system, and serious illnesses such as AIDS? Policymakers, scholars, practitioners, and students will find the "what we know" and "what we need to know" presentations in Drugs and Crime a most unique and appealing addition to the literature and a valuable resource in the continuing effort to understand the complex relationship between drug use and crime.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Drug control and system improvement : evaluating the success of public policies / Doris Layton MacKenzie -- Doing evaluations in policy research : implications for drug control initiatives / Albert J. Reiss, Jr. -- Prevalence of drug use among criminal offender populations : implications for control, treatment and policy / Yih-ing Hser, Douglas Longshore, M. Douglas Anglin -- Gangs and crack cocaine trafficking / Malcolm W. Klein, Cheryl Lee Maxson -- Police initiatives. Defining the street-level drug market / David Weisburd [and others] -- Controlling street-level drug trafficking : professional and community policing approaches / Craig D. Uchida, Brian Forst -- Police crackdowns on drug abuse and trafficking / Robert E. Worden, Timothy S. Bynum, James Frank -- Assessing the community effects of tactical narcotics teams / Michele Sviridoff, Sally T. Hillsman -- Drugs and public housing : toward an effective police response / Wesley G. Skogan, Sampson O. Annan -- Judicial, correctional, and treatment alternatives. Prosecuting drug offenders / Joan E. Jacoby, Heike P. Gramckow.
- (Cont.) Classifying drug offenders for treatment / John R. Hepburn -- Do criminal sanctions deter drug crimes? / Jeffrey A. Fagan -- Shock incarceration as an alternative for drug offenders / Doris Layton MacKenzie -- The implementation and effectiveness of drug testing in community supervision : results of an experimental evaluation / Susan Turner, Joan Petersilia, Elizabeth Piper Deschenes -- Treating the juvenile drug offender / Elizabeth Piper Deschenes, Peter W. Greenwood -- Epilogue. Drug policy initiatives : the next 25 years / Doris Layton MacKenzie.
- ISBN
- 080394456X (cloth)
- 0803944578 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^93036738^
- OCLC
- 28963954
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library