War on Drugs
The war on marijuana: The transformation of the war on drugs in the 1990s
... Narrowly focusing on people incarcerated in state and federal prison for marijuana offenses diverts the lens of analysis from the real target: low-level marijuana users. These persons have disproportionately been ...
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The Making of Narco-Terrorism: Constructing the U.S. War on Drugs in Colombia
... on Drugs” was put on the so-called “source countries” in Latin America, with the ultimate aim of reducing the supply of mainly coca, opium and ...illicit drugs (Youngers & Rosin, ...
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Math 120 Winter Recitation Handout 11: Can We Win the War on Drugs?
... In this section of the recitation you examine the cost-effectiveness of the three main strategies that have been employed in the federal government’s War on Drugs. These are mandatory minimum sentences for ...
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Prisoners of Their Own War: Can Policymakers Look Beyond the War on Drugs to Drug Treatment Courts?
... The United States is suffering from what Judge Morris Hoffman has called our “national schizophrenia about drugs.” 1 We simultaneously want drug abuse to be “a crime and . . . a disease.” 2 Our answer to these ...
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The War on Drugs in the United States: Drugs as an instrument to securitize racial minorities (1875-1937)
... against drugs, which was barely more than a crusade against races in the United ...modern war on ...race, drugs, and incarceration rates have a problematic relationship in the history of the United ...
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(RE)SHAPING THE POLITICAL NARRATIVE OF THE WAR ON DRUGS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURAL IMAGINARY OF THE INSTITUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR ON DRUGS IN OZ (1997-2003) AND ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (2013-2019)
... the war on poverty, the war on misery, the war on disease, the war on hunger” and as such had lost its power when new domestic problems needed to be ...the war metaphor again became a ...
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US moral panics, Mexican politics, and the borderlands origins of the war on drugs
... Mexico’s war on drugs (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012); Benjamin ...of Drugs in Latin America, (Cham: Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 2016), 33-53; Isaac ...
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When finance met security: Back to the War on Drugs and the problem of dirty money
... form of cooperation with America's folk devils. The gradual acknowledgment of the problem, which relied on beliefs and representations about organized crime, and increased action in dealing with it through the ...
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State Terrorism in the Philippines: Unmasking the securitized terror behind 'War on Drugs'
... At the same time, I will attempt an exploratory research to examine how the two described strategies, namely securitization and responsibilisation, have affected the ‘war on drugs’ and how the fit with the ...
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Reinventing Racism: Covert Racism in Ronald Reagan's Political Rhetoric During the 1980s War on Drugs
... Reagan’s War on Drugs politics in the 1980s were a continuation of earlier forms of covertly racist politics on crime and ...the War on ...own War on Drugs in the 1980s, turning covert ...
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WAR ON DRUGS REPORT OF THE GLOBAL COMMISSION ON DRUG POLICY
... global war on drugs has ...Narcotic Drugs came into being 50 years ago, and when President Nixon launched the US government’s war on drugs 40 years ago, policymakers believed that harsh ...
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Moore et al - 2008 - Who’s using and who’s doing time Incarceration, the war on drugs, and public health.pdfView Download
... the war on drugs increases. More than $11 billion was spent on the war against drugs in ...the war on drugs serves to fuel our spiraling incarceration rates and the removal of ...
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Thailand. New War on Drugs
... February 20, 2008, then interior minister Chalerm Yubamrung announced that a new “war on drugs”—similar to that carried out in 2003 by the government of Thaksin Shinawatra—would be launched. Chalerm vowed ...
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Stability in a failing policy: An assessment of the war on drugs
... the war on ...of drugs, but to widen its influence in the ...the war on drugs has a national and international ...the war on drugs for almost fifty years as an instrument to ...
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It's the Economy, Stupid: The Hijacking of the Debate Over Immigration Reform by Monsters, Ghosts, and Goblins (or the War on Drugs, War on Terror, Narcoterrorists, Etc.)
... conference—”Drug War Madness: Policies, Borders, and Corruption”—brings to mind many images, few of them ...“drug war madness” in connection with the United States and ...metaphorical war often ...
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How Political Violence Helps Explain Organized Crime: A Case Study of Mexico\u27s War on Drugs
... civil war violence and other forms of political violence may help explain organized crime violence in Mexico and in other countries with high levels of organized crime ...
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The ‘war on drugs’ has failed: Is decriminalisation of drug use a solution to the problem in South Africa?
... In order to direct repressive measures at drug trafficking, it is necessary for the effort to be global, given the porous borders of many countries and ease of international transport. SA is a signatory to The United ...
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Aider and Abettor Liability, the Continuing Criminal Enterprise, and Street Gangs: A New Twist in an Old War on Drugs
... 160 Specifically, he allowed his nephew to use his Arizona home as a heroin laboratory, maintained detailed financial records for the enterprise, contributed substantial amounts of capit[r] ...
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Fourth Amendment Suspicionless Urinalysis Testing: A Constitutionally Reasonable Weapon in the Nation's War on Drugs
... 123 In response to the majority noting that several Customs employees have been fired for accepting bribes or other integrity violations, Justice Scalia pointed out that "none of these i[r] ...
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The war on drugs: reports from the Irish front
... First Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Measures to Reduce the Demand for Drugs, 1996.. Dublin: Department of the Taoiseach.[r] ...
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