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Availability:In StockContributor:Anne L. FosterPublish date:2023-12-15Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478025429ISBN-10:1478025425UPC:9781478025429Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, CriminologyBook Topic:20th Century, 21st CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCGW47KH7J
Since the early twentieth century, the United States has led a global prohibition effort against certain drugs in which production restriction and criminalization are emphasized over prevention and treatment as means to reduce problematic usage. This "war on drugs" is widely seen to have failed, and periodically decriminalization and legalization movements arise. Debates continue over whether the problems of addiction and crime associated with illicit use of drugs stem from their illegal status or the nature of the drugs themselves. In The Long War on Drugs Anne L. Foster explores the origin of the punitive approach to drugs and its continued appeal despite its obvious flaws. She provides a comprehensive overview, focusing not only on a political history of policy developments but also on changes in medical practices and understanding of drugs. Foster also outlines the social and cultural changes prompting different attitudes about drugs; the racial, environmental, and social justice implications of particular drug policies; and the international consequences of US drug policy.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478025429ISBN-10:1478025425UPC:9781478025429Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, CriminologyBook Topic:20th Century, 21st CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCGW47KH7J
Anne L. Foster is Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University, author of Projections of Power: The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1941, and coeditor of The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives, both also published by Duke University Press.
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