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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"War on Drugs"”.
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Imprisonment in Thailand: The Impact of the 2003 War on Drugs Policy
… this study was to analyse the impact of the 2003 war on drugs policy on imprisonment and the prison social world in Thailand. While most studies on the drugs war have focused mainly on the quantitative increase in the prison population in the penal systems as the policy’s main impact, this …
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“An Exercise in International Extortion”: Operation “Intercept” and Nixon’s 1969 War on Drugs
… Office in January 1969, President Richard M. Nixon inherited a nation in crisis with drugs playing a central role. At a campaign stop a few months earlier, Nixon announced to a packed convention center in Anaheim, CA, that if elected president he would end the flow of the illicit drugs coming …
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War on Drugs: Examining the Effects on Social Disorganization and Crime in Cities
… to study inner-city crime by focusing on the environment and its effects on residents. Social disorganization, characterized by weakened institutions led researchers to analyze and predict patterns of crime in urban areas. Researchers argue that social disorganization theory arguments …
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Institutional racism and public policy : a critical discourse analysis of the war on drugs
1 PDF file (x, 189 leaves ; 28 cm)
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What have we learned from the War on Drugs? an assessment of Mexico's counternarcotics strategy
Forty years ago, U.S. President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs. From the beginning, the United States has pursued a strategy focused on the supply-side of the issue, emphasizing eradication, interdiction, and incarceration and has pressured the government of Mexico to employ the same strategy …
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Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs
… clergymen and physicians—have expressed broader concerns about intoxication and addiction with rhetoric that simultaneously pathologized and criminalized the unsanctioned use of psychoactive substances. During the first half of the eighteenth century, a period known as the Gin Craze, rising levels …
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Through the Gateway: Marijuana Production, Governance, and the Drug War Détente
… have remained in the greyest of grey market zones. Federal anti-drug laws and supply-side tactics have intensively targeted them even as marijuana has become more licit. In this legally unstable environment, marijuana patient-cultivators and underground producers have articulated and asserted …
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Prospects for United States-Mexican cooperation in the war on drug trafficking
Drug control policy on the Southwest U.S. border requires an exceptional level of cooperation between Mexico and the United States. This thesis examines the formulation and evolution of drug control policies in both countries, and analyzes the mutual interests and the unique constraints facing …
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Three Decades of Epidemic Black Gun Homicide Victimization in Toronto: Analyzing Causes and Consequences of a Criminological Approach
This dissertation analyzes Black gun violence and homicide victimization in Toronto from a health equity and critical race perspective rather than prevailing criminological theories. Young Black men in Toronto are estimated to be five times more likely to become victims of homicidal violence …
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Opioid use and abuse in the United States
<p>Opioids have quadrupled the number of unintentional drug overdose deaths since 1999 and are now among the leading causes of death in the United States. Though some reform has recently occurred, the United States continues to operate largely under a punitive criminal justice model despite …
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Organized-crime growth and sustainment: a review of the influence of popular religion and beliefs in Mexico
In 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced the war on drugs, an ongoing, low-intensity, asymmetrical war between the government and various drug cartels that has proven the bloodiest conflict since the Mexican civil war a century ago. Meanwhile, the subculture of narco-cultura continues …
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Overcrowding and its effects on inmate violent behavior in priSon
Prisons in the United States are overcrowded. The problem of overcrowding has worsened as the years have gone on, especially since the war on drugs and determinate sentencing, have become a part of the American Justice System. This overcrowding has led to concerns about what effects it might have …
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Beyond the illusion of inclusion: A new vision for cannabis social equity
… a reflexive thematic analysis of race and gender on High Times Magazine covers from 1974-2019. The study analyzed the images on 500 covers of High Times, encoding them for race, gender, and profession, which revealed patterns of tropes. The study finds that the commodification of Blackness …
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Developing A Strategy to Combat Drug Abuse in Philadelphia, 1960-1973
How did Philadelphia develop its first drug control strategy between 1960 and 1973? This study argues that Philadelphia's drug control strategy was part of an array of collaborative responses to the composite challenges of urban decay and was influenced by concerns for development, law enforcement, …
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Narrative Persuasion and Transportation Theory as a Stigma Reduction Method for Substance Use Disorder: A Thematic Analysis
Drug use, overdose, and addiction has skyrocketed in the past twenty years (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). Negative stigma towards addiction, or otherwise known as substance use disorder (SUD), has only increased since President Nixon declared the "war on drugs" in 1971 …
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School to Prison Pipeline Unmasked: Review of how the School to Prison Pipeline Reinforces Disproportionality in Mass Incarceration
<p>Strict law and order policies, due to the War on Drugs, enacted in the 1970's have led to the mass incarceration that continues to plague communities of color. Simultaneously, zero tolerance policies in the nation’s schools have helped to fuel the mass incarceration of people of color by …
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Do place-based interventions displace crime in cities? : an evaluation of two crime prevention strategies in Chihuahua, Mexico
Scholars and practitioners have traditionally been skeptical of place-based crime prevention and reduction interventions because they can potentially displace crime to other times, locations, settings, or crime events. However, only few empirical studies have successfully demonstrated crime …
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Change agents : who leads and why in the execution of US national security policy
This dissertation examines the factors affecting national security mission assignment decisions. It focuses on cases in which military or civilian agents are selected in lieu of the other. Six factors are identified for testing as possible contributors to agency selection. These factors are drawn …
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When Movements Fail: Drug Policy and Popular Participation in Brazil
Most examinations of the political consequences of social movements are single case studies that seek to ascertain the determinants of movement success. This thesis instead employs comparative analysis to further the understanding of the dynamics of partial successes and unintended outcomes of …
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