The return of the dangerous classes: drug prohibition and policy politics
The Clinton administration has launched some new programs, talked about others to deal with this country's urgent social problems from poverty to crime to the environment. Meanwhile, the "war on drugs" is being fought with old weapons. Harsh punishments continue to be handed out at gr...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The Clinton administration has launched some new programs, talked about others to deal with this country's urgent social problems from poverty to crime to the environment. Meanwhile, the "war on drugs" is being fought with old weapons. Harsh punishments continue to be handed out at great economic and social cost, but fail to control the most dangerous forms of illicit drug use. Diana R. Gordon examines up close some current get-tough policy making, from the citizen initiative recriminalizing pot possession in Alaska to a Michigan law requiring life sentences without parole for possession with intent to distribute more than 650 grams of heroin or cocaine, to the congressional consensus on the death penalty for major drug trafficking. She finds that recent drug prohibition policies have done as much to distort our politics and impoverish our community life as the drug problem itself. A "shadow agenda" sustains the war on drugs, giving politicians symbolic opportunities to express protectiveness and to manipulate racial fears. Both leaders and ordinary citizens use the drug problem to construct enemies - blacks, youth, aliens - who can be blamed for American social and economic ills. These are the "dangerous classes," whose return is polarizing American society. In hard-hitting detail, Gordon reveals the terrible price we pay for pursuing failed efforts at eradicating illegal drug use, efforts that only intensify racial and generational conflicts, provide hollow substitutes for meaningful activism, and decimate constitutional protections for the innocent as well as the guilty. Today's drug prohibition politics, she concludes, distract us from our deeper social problems: deprivation, disease, and inequality. |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 316 S. graph. Darst. |
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Preface ix
Prologue 3
PARTI. Introduction
1. Drug Prohibition: More and Less Than Meets the Eye 15
2. Getting Tough on Illicit Drugs 29
PART II. Snapshots of American Drug Prohibition
3. The Kingpin Must Die 45
4. The 650 Club 55
5. Just Saying No in Alaska 63
6. The Taxpayers Revolt Meets the War on Drugs 73
7. Loitering in Livable Seattle 85
PART III. The Shadow Agenda
8. Drug Prohibition on Demand? 97
9. Beyond Drug Abuse: Three Other Agenda Items 112
10. Controlling the Dangerous Classes 122
11. The Ambiguous Significance of Race 142
12. Drug Prohibition as a Political Resource 160
13. Drug Prohibition as a Material Resource 173
14. Drugspeak 183
PART IV. Other Voices, Other Themes
15. On the European Front 211
16. Toward a Kinder, Gentler Social Policy? 225
Notes 237
Bibliography 287
Index 305
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