Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, Eighth Edition, focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision-making within this complex and multidisciplinary field. Lyman offers a comprehensive big-picture examination of the US drug problem, dealing with drugs, abusers, drug enforcement, and public policy. Organized in three sections: Understanding the Problem, Gangs and Drugs, and Fighting Back, topics covered include the business of drugs and the role of organized crime in the drug trade, drug legalization and decriminalization, legal and law enforcement strategies, an analysis of the socialization process of drug use and abuse, and a historical discussion of drug abuse that puts the contemporary drug problem into perspective. Suitable for upper-level undergraduates in Criminal Justice, Criminology, and related programs, Drugs in Society, Eighth Edition, uses logical organization and strong pedagogy (case studies, focused text boxes with related information, critical thinking tasks) to support learning objectives.

Product Description: Domestic drug enforcement takes many forms, from the rural patrol officer who happens upon a small-scale mobile “shake and bake” methamphetamine lab during a routine traffic stop, to the city narcotics detective who initiates a low-level buy-bust operation that nets a few hits of crack cocaine on the street corner, to the local, state, and federal agents working in multiagency task forces that coordinate a sting operation that nets thousands of kilos of near-pure cocaine being transported by tractor-trailer...read more

Product Description: This book reveals the disturbing truth about how the escalation of the War on Drugs over the past 30 years has eroded the human and property rights of Americans―while doing little to stop drug trafficking or use. • Shows that the War on Drugs has failed to achieve the goals that were originally set • Argues that this war continues to erode human and property rights• Explores how the climate of the War on Drugs is changing • Discusses the powerful actors that support the continued drug war• Shares provocative accounts of the impact of the drug war on regular citizens• Includes links to further reading and video evidenc...read more

Product Description: Galax, a small Virginia town at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, was one of the first places that Henry H. Brownstein, Timothy M. Mulcahy, and Johannes Huessy visited for their study of the social dynamics of methamphetamine markets—and what they found changed everything...read more

Product Description: First published in 2007, Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics critically analyzed claims made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the White House agency of accountability in the nation s drug war since 1989, as found in the six editions of the annual National Drug Control Strategy between 2000 and 2005...read more

Though the drug phenomenon occupies an ambiguous position within crime and justice studies, it became apparent to the editors that, no matter which direction their focus turned--social inequality, media coverage of crime, criminal justice as industry, racism, crime causation, prison overcrowding, or expanding police powers--substance abuse and drug wars were influential dimensions for each. This collection attempts to provide readers with the factual, theoretical, and philosophical information necessary to understand the multifaceted dimensions of drugs. The articles explore the drug-crime connection, how the police and the courts approach the issues, corrections/treatment, and policy.

Product Description: More than forty years have passed since President Richard Nixon described illegal drugs as “public enemy number one” and declared a “War on Drugs.” Recently the United Nations Global Commission on Drug Policy declared that “the global war on drugs has failed with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world...read more

Product Description: The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973 argues that the U.S. government has clung to its militant drug war, despite its obvious failures, because effective control of illicit traffic and consumption were never the critical factors motivating its adoption in the first place...read more

Product Description: Discussions about reducing the harms associated with drug use and antidrug policies are often politicized, infused with questionable data, and unproductive. This paper provides a nonpartisan primer on drug use and drug policy in the United States...read more

Product Description: This title includes book & DVD. "The 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report" (INCSR) is a report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. This book describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar Year 2010...read more

Product Description: A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problemSince its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war has spanned the globe in a quest to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. Explaining the conceptual framework within which policymakers understood illegal opium production and trafficking, Seeing Drugs examines the genesis of the war on drugs during the Nixon and Ford administrations when the United States developed the policies that set the parameters of subsequent American drug control abroad...read more

Product Description: Drug Law Enforcement Strategies provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on the intricacies of drug crimes, investigations, and trials. Featuring law enforcement officials from around the country, this book guides the reader through the latest trends in the narcotics arena - including new drugs entering the market, the medical marijuana controversy, and the role of technology in investigations - while analyzing how these issues are impacting procedures...read more

Product Description: Federal domestic drug control policy has evolved over the course of the past century and currently consists of a three-pronged approach to reducing illegal drug use: prevention, substance abuse treatment and enforcement activities...read more

Product Description: A drug policy most often refers to a government's attempt to combat the negative effects of drug addiction and misuse in its society. Governments try to combat drug addiction with policies which address both the demand and supply of drugs, as well as policies which can mitigate the harms of drug abuse...read more

Product Description: Discusses the issues surrounding drug legalization, including asking why drug policies have failed in the past, if drug use is dangerous to society, and how drug policy should be reformed.

Product Description: Despite efforts to reduce drug consumption in the United States over the past 35 years, drugs are just as cheap and available as they have ever been. Cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines continue to cause great harm in the country, particularly in minority communities in the major cities...read more