"Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite this strategy the region has seen increasing levels of homicide, displacement and violence. Why did the militarization of U.S. dru…
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture…
"Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subcultur…
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the increasing threats to our security coming from a subculture…
'Drug War Patholgoies' develops a theory of embedded corporatism to explain the US government's war on drugs. Drawing on government documents, and econometric estimators, Horace A. Bartilow demonstrates how corporate power is projected and embedded in lobbying, financing of elec…
"With the war between the Mexican state and the drug traffickers operating within its borders having claimed over 70,000 lives since 2006, noted journalist and author Michael Deibert zeroes in on the story of the notorious Gulf Cartel, their deadly war with their former allies L…
"With the war between the Mexican state and the drug traffickers operating within its borders having claimed over 70,000 lives since 2006, noted journalist and author Michael Deibert zeroes in on the story of the notorious Gulf Cartel, their deadly war with their former allies L…
Background -- Overview -- The birth of the drug war -- Damage from the drug war -- Crime -- Public health -- Civil liberties -- Social cohesion -- Your tax dollars at work -- The federal government's case for the drug war -- The perception of the drug czars -- The czars defend t…
America's war on drugs seems to be without end. This book explores the impact of the drug war on crime, public health, civil liberties, social cohesion, and the use of tax dollars. The author shows how the drug war is a major cause of many of America's difficulties, including vi…
From the Publisher: "Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America's "War on Drugs"--Both in public spending and in human terms. Is it possible that US drug policies are helping to proliferate, not prevent, a multitude of s…
Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America's ""War on Drugs""--Both in tax spending and in human terms. Is it possible that US drug policies are helping to proliferate, not prevent, a multitude of social ills including: …
Using the best scientific evidence, Drugs: America's Holy War explores the impact and cost of America's "War on Drugs"--Both in public spending and in human terms. Is it possible that US drug policies are helping to proliferate, not prevent, a multitude of social ills including …
