Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
H. Morley Swingle , Prosecuting Attorney Cape Girardeau County |
DRUG RECOGNITON EXPERTS IN MISSOURI |
66 Journal of the Missouri Bar 250 (September/October, 2010) |
Missouri began its Drug Recognition Expert Program in 1992. As of 2010, there are 160 active certified drug recognition experts in Missouri. The Missouri Highway Patrol alone has 28, with at least two stationed in every troop in the state. Research indicates that these experts have testified in at least 26 of Missouri's 114 counties. Statewide,... |
2010 |
Kristin Faucette |
FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES TO THE FAMILY SMOKING PREVENTION AND TOBACCO CONTROL ACT: BALANCING CONGRESS' INTEREST IN PRESERVING PUBLIC HEALTH WITH THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY'S RIGHT TO FREELY COMMUNICATE WITH ADULT SMOKERS |
6 Journal of Health & Biomedical Law 301 (2010) |
Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, and tobacco use is responsible for roughly one in five deaths annually, or more than four hundred thousand deaths per year. According to the Institute of Medicine, smoking-related deaths account for more deaths than AIDS, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, homicide, suicide,... |
2010 |
Alyssa L. Beaver |
GETTING A FIX ON COCAINE SENTENCING POLICY: REFORMING THE SENTENCING SCHEME OF THE ANTI-DRUG ABUSE ACT OF 1986 |
78 Fordham Law Review 2531 (April, 2010) |
The now-infamous War on Drugs campaign of the 1980s culminated in the adoption of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which included a provision for a one-hundred-to-one sentencing ratio of powder cocaine to crack cocaine. This ratio provides that the penalty for a crime involving five or ten grams of crack cocaine is equivalent to the sentence for... |
2010 |
Seth Harp |
GLOBALIZATION OF THE U.S. BLACK MARKET: PROHIBITION, THE WAR ON DRUGS, AND THE CASE OF MEXICO |
85 New York University Law Review 1661 (November, 2010) |
Prohibition of alcohol from 1919 to 1933 is a paradigmatic case of sumptuary legislation gone awry. Instead of removing alcohol from the market, Prohibition increased alcohol's potency and decreased its quality, resulting in a spike in drunkenness and accidental deaths while black market corruption and violence abounded. The same criticisms are... |
2010 |
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter Reuter |
HOW DRUG ENFORCEMENT AFFECTS DRUG PRICES |
39 Crime and Justice 213 (2010) |
Enforcement against drug selling remains the principal tool of drug control in the United States and many other countries. Though the risk of incarceration for a drug dealer has risen fivefold or more over the last 25 years in the United States, the prices of cocaine and heroin have fallen substantially. Different models of how enforcement affects... |
2010 |
Kevin R. Johnson |
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.) |
13 Chapman Law Review 583 (Spring 2010) |
The title to this conference -- Drug War Madness: Policies, Borders, and Corruption--brings to mind many images, few of them positive. Although Mexico is not mentioned in the conference title, much of the live symposium at which this paper was originally presented discussed drug war madness in connection with the United States and Mexico. My... |
2010 |
Judge Kevin S. Burke |
JUST WHAT MADE DRUG COURTS SUCCESSFUL? |
36 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 39 (Winter, 2010) |
In the early 1970s, the United States saw a wave of new laws imposing dramatically harsher penalties for drug convictions. Court systems already inundated with serious offenses were flooded with drug cases as arrests for drug-related crimes in the United States jumped from 322,000 in 1970 to more than 1.3 million in 1998. Recidivism rates were... |
2010 |
Kevin S. Burke |
JUST WHAT MADE DRUG COURTS SUCCESSFUL? |
94 Judicature 119 (November-December 2010) |
In the early 1970s, the United States saw a wave of new laws imposing dramatically harsher penalties for drug convictions. Court systems already inundated with serious offenses were flooded with drug cases as arrests for drug-related crimes in the United States jumped from 322,000 in 1970 to more than 1.3 million in 1998. Recidivism rates were... |
2010 |
Kimani Paul-Emile |
MAKING SENSE OF DRUG REGULATION: A THEORY OF LAW FOR DRUG CONTROL POLICY |
19 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 691 (Summer 2010) |
This Article advances a new theory of drug regulation that addresses two previously unexamined questions: how law-makers are able to regulate drugs differently irrespective of the dangers the drugs may pose and independent of their health effects, and the process followed to achieve this phenomenon. For example, although tobacco products are the... |
2010 |
Deborah Ahrens |
METHADEMIC: DRUG PANIC IN AN AGE OF AMBIVALENCE |
37 Florida State University Law Review 841 (Summer, 2010) |
The story of criminal sanctions in modern America is a familiar-and depressing-narrative. According to the narrative, we live in an era where the dynamics of popular politics, the practices of the media, and the (often racialized) anxieties of modern life combine to create a one-way ratchet, in which we identify perceived new threats to public... |
2010 |
Kirin F. Hilliar, Richard I. Kemp, Thomas F. Denson |
NOW EVERYONE LOOKS THE SAME: ALCOHOL INTOXICATION REDUCES THE OWN-RACE BIAS IN FACE RECOGNITION |
34 Law and Human Behavior 367 (October, 2010) |
Several factors influence the reliability of eyewitness identification evidence. Typically, recognition for same-race faces is better than for different-race faces (the own-race bias), and alcohol intoxication decreases overall face recognition accuracy. This research investigated how alcohol intoxication influences the own-race bias.... |
2010 |
Matthew Avery |
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE AND RESCUING "UNSAFE" DRUGS WITH PHARMACOGENOMICS: A REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE |
65 Food & Drug Law Journal 37 (2010) |
For more than a decade, we have been on the verge of a new era in medicine, but scientific hurdles, adverse market pressures and outdated regulations have blocked progress .. Genomics holds the promise of revolutionary advances in medicine. Hopefully Congress will soon realize the enormous potential of genomics and pass this legislation to support... |
2010 |
Sarah French Russell |
RETHINKING RECIDIVIST ENHANCEMENTS: THE ROLE OF PRIOR DRUG CONVICTIONS IN FEDERAL SENTENCING |
43 U.C. Davis Law Review 1135 (April, 2010) |
Recidivist sentencing enhancements, which increase criminal sentences for defendants with prior convictions, are a prominent feature of the federal criminal justice system. This Article considers the policy rationales supporting recidivist enhancements and reexamines them in light of two recent Supreme Court cases, United States v. Booker and... |
2010 |
Celesta A. Albonetti , Robert D. Baller |
SENTENCING IN FEDERAL DRUG TRAFFICKING/MANUFACTURING CASES: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF EXTRA-LEGAL DEFENDANT CHARACTERISTICS, GUIDELINES DEPARTURES, AND CONTINUITY OF CULTURE |
14 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 41 (Fall 2010) |
In the past three decades, researchers have conducted numerous sociological studies and legal analyses on the impact, if any, of extra-legal variables on outcomes in the legal system. Within this broadly defined area of study, a significant and growing body of scholarly research is focusing on examining outcome disparity in criminal adjudication in... |
2010 |
Jennifer C. Pierotti |
THE "BOTTOM LINE": A SMOKESCREEN FOR THE REALITY THAT ANTI-TOBACCO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES ARE HAZARDOUS TO MINORITY HEALTH AND EQUALITY |
26 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 441 (Spring, 2010) |
What new growing employment trend would disqualify Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, and President Barack Obama as potential employees, and make Adolf Hitler the best applicant? In light of the increasing number of private companies that are making tobacco use outside the workplace a disqualifying factor in employment... |
2010 |
Richard C. Boldt |
THE "TOMAHAWK" AND THE "HEALING BALM" : DRUG TREATMENT COURTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE |
10 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 45 (Spring 2010) |
There is a strong association in the United States (U.S.) between the misuse of alcohol and other drugs and criminal offending. The correlation is complex, as there are a number of predisposing factors that are common both to substance abuse and to criminal involvement, including poverty, unemployment, and mental illness. Whatever the precise... |
2010 |
Sam Kamin, Associate Professor, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver |
THE CHALLENGES OF MARIJUANA LAW REFORM |
2010 Aspatore Special Report 22 (unknown) |
The past several years have seen an explosion of marijuana law reform in the United States. While marijuana remains a Schedule 1 narcotic whose sale and manufacture are prohibited by federal criminal laws, many states have moved to decriminalize the drug, to permit its use as a medicine and even, in some states, to legalize it completely. This... |
2010 |
Alex Kreit |
THE DECRIMINALIZATION OPTION: SHOULD STATES CONSIDER MOVING FROM A CRIMINAL TO A CIVIL DRUG COURT MODEL? |
2010 University of Chicago Legal Forum 299 (2010) |
As states look to shave their corrections budgets in the midst of the recession, many are thinking about options to reform what is widely considered to be a bloated and ineffective approach to drug policy. While the effort to move beyond failed drug war policies and adopt smarter and more cost-effective measures is a positive step, the policy... |
2010 |
Joel Gross |
THE EFFECTS OF NET-WIDENING ON MINORITY AND INDIGENT DRUG OFFENDERS: A CRITIQUE OF DRUG COURTS |
10 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 161 (Spring 2010) |
Proponents of therapeutic justice praise the drug court system for surpassing the traditional criminal justice system in lowering recidivism rates and reducing the negative effects associated with quality-of-life offenses. For example, a United States Department of Justice study of recidivism rates in the drug courts of Miami, Florida found that... |
2010 |
Erik S. Siebert |
THE PROCESS IS THE PROBLEM: LESSONS LEARNED FROM UNITED STATES DRUG SENTENCING REFORM |
44 University of Richmond Law Review 867 (January, 2010) |
The United States drug sentencing structure is one of the most complex, commonly used, and criticized systems in the federal courts. From its clear and focused origin, the federal sentencing system has morphed into a tangled mass of rules and regulations that few grasp and even fewer like. It has been criticized for being unfair and racially... |
2010 |
John Stogner |
THE WAR ON WHISKEY IN THE WOMB: ASSESSING THE MERIT OF CHALLENGES TO STATUTES RESTRICTING THE ALCOHOL INTAKE OF PREGNANT WOMEN |
7 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 259 (Spring, 2010) |
I. Introduction. 260 II. The Concerns over Drinking While Pregnant. 261 III. The Statutes in Question. 266 IV. Debunking the Arguments Against Restricting Alcohol Use in Pregnancy. 272 A. Addressing Privacy Concerns. 273 B. Equal Protection Concerns. 278 i. The Gender Argument. 278 ii. The Pregnancy Status Argument. 281 iii. The Socioeconomic... |
2010 |
Marc Mauer, (At the Richard Nixon Library) |
WELCOME DINNER: "THE DRUG WAR AND ITS SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS" |
13 Chapman Law Review 695 (Spring 2010) |
Dean Timothy Canova: Thank you everyone for being here tonight. This is such a great venue for a Symposium on the War on Drugs. President Richard Nixon was the first President to actually declare war on drugs, so it's very fitting to be here tonight, and to hear perhaps a critique of the war. Before I introduce Marc Mauer, our key-note speaker, I... |
2010 |
Kevin Robert Glandon |
BRIGHT LINES ON THE ROAD: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, THE AUTOMATIC COMPANION RULE, THE "AUTOMATIC CONTAINER" RULE, AND A NEW RULE FOR DRUG- OR FIREARM-RELATED TRAFFIC STOP COMPANION SEARCHES INCIDENT TO LAWFUL ARREST |
46 American Criminal Law Review 1267 (Summer, 2009) |
Introduction. 1268 I. Current Law, Historical Development, and Unresolved Questions. 1270 A. The State of the Law. 1271 B. History & Development of the Fourth Amendment as It Applies to Automobiles. 1273 1. What is a Search?. 1274 2. Searches & Seizures: The Requirement of Reasonableness. 1274 3. When a Warrant is Not Required. 1275 4. Automobile... |
2009 |
Eric J. Miller |
DRUGS, COURTS, AND THE NEW PENOLOGY |
20 Stanford Law and Policy Review 417 (2009) |
Perhaps the most important judicial response to the War on Drugs has been the creation of specialty drug courts designed to ameliorate the impact of drug sentencing policy on individual drug users. The drug court's central goal is to provide a safety valve for the cycle of incarceration-release-recidivism that filled prisons with low-level drug... |
2009 |
Michael Vitiello |
LEGALIZING MARIJUANA: CALIFORNIA'S POT OF GOLD? |
2009 Wisconsin Law Review 1349 (2009) |
In early 2009, a member of the California Assembly introduced a bill that would have legalized marijuana in an effort to raise tax revenue and reduce prison costs. While the bill's proponent withdrew the bill, he vowed to renew his efforts in the next term. Other prominent California officials, including Governor Schwarzenegger, have indicated... |
2009 |
Steven B. Duke |
MASS IMPRISONMENT, CRIME RATES, AND THE DRUG WAR: A PENOLOGICAL AND HUMANITARIAN DISGRACE |
9 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 17 (Fall-Winter, 2009) |
The explosion in our prison population began in 1973, the same year President Nixon declared war on drugs. During the preceding forty years, the prison population was stable at around 200,000. Since 1970, however, the number of people in U.S. prisons and jails has increased 800 percent and our rate of imprisonment, the percentage of the population... |
2009 |
Eric Blumenson, Eva Nilsen |
NO RATIONAL BASIS: THE PRAGMATIC CASE FOR MARIJUANA LAW REFORM |
17 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 43 (Fall 2009) |
This article presents a critique of marijuana prohibition and suggests some alternative regulatory approaches that would be more productive and consonant with justice. Part I relies on a forty-year empirical record to demonstrate that (1) reliance on a law enforcement approach has aggravated rather than mitigated the risks involved with marijuana... |
2009 |
Krista Stone-Manista |
PROTECTING PREGNANT WOMEN: A GUIDE TO SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGING CRIMINAL CHILD ABUSE PROSECUTIONS OF PREGNANT DRUG ADDICTS |
99 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 823 (Summer 2009) |
This Comment is intended to enable advocates for pregnant women to challenge the impermissible and unconstitutional prosecutions of pregnant drug users for criminal child abuse and endangerment. The Comment surveys the history of such prosecutions, and considers the policy justifications for them, before turning to an analysis of the frameworks... |
2009 |
Jamie Fellner |
RACE, DRUGS, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES |
20 Stanford Law and Policy Review 257 (2009) |
Since the mid-1980s, the United States has pursued aggressive law enforcement strategies to curtail the use and distribution of illegal drugs. The costs and benefits of this national war on drugs remain fiercely debated. What is not debatable, however, is that this ostensibly race-neutral effort has been waged primarily against black Americans.... |
2009 |
Kelley R. Brandstetter |
REPEALING THE DRUG-FREE STUDENT LOAN PROVISION: WOULD PUTTING DOPE BACK INTO THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM HELP KEEP DOPE OFF THE STREET AND OUT OF THE PRISON SYSTEM? |
77 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1127 (Spring 2009) |
Jane Dope was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Temptation (UT). She was exceedingly focused on academics but not on making many friends during the first few months of school. One night, Jane decided to accept a classmate's invitation to attend a house party located near UT's campus. Jane was enjoying herself and meeting new people until... |
2009 |
Michael M. O'Hear |
RETHINKING DRUG COURTS: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AS A RESPONSE TO RACIAL INJUSTICE |
20 Stanford Law and Policy Review 463 (2009) |
Since their first appearance in Miami in 1989, specialized drug treatment courts have grown phenomenally popular, with nearly 2,000 now in existence. Although their effectiveness is a matter of debate among academics, their political appeal remains strong. This popularity stems in large part from the unpopularity of what is generally seen as the... |
2009 |
Marques P. Richeson |
SEX, DRUGS, AND . . . RACE-TO-CASTRATE: A BLACK BOX WARNING OF CHEMICAL CASTRATION'S POTENTIAL RACIAL SIDE EFFECTS |
25 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 95 (Spring 2009) |
I. History of Castration in the United States: Eliminating the Unfit . 98 II. The Middle Passage: From Circumcision to Castration. 101 III. History of Black Male Castration: Demasculinization, Dehumanization, and Invisibility. 103 A. Castration as a Tool of Demasculinization. 107 B. Castration as a Tool of Dehumanization. 108 C. Castration as a... |
2009 |
Kimberli Gasparon |
THE DARK HORSE OF DRUG ABUSE: LEGAL ISSUES OF ADMINISTERING PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS TO RACEHORSES |
16 Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal 199 (2009) |
Could you imagine different human athlete drug policies for teams in different states in the National Football League or National Basketball Association? On June 22, 2007, the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority (KHRA) searched the stables of trainer Patrick Biancone and found vials of cobra venom, a Class A drug. This was not the first time that... |
2009 |
Ruth C. Stern, J. Herbie DiFonzo |
THE END OF THE RED QUEEN'S RACE: MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN THE NEW CENTURY |
27 Quinnipiac Law Review 673 (2009) |
Lately it occurs to me What a long strange trip it's been. Robert Hunter More than forty years after the Summer of Love, marijuana still soothes and vexes the public consciousness. Research data on the therapeutic uses of cannabis continue to accumulate, adding fuel to an ongoing controversy about permissible drug use. In recent decades the... |
2009 |
Cynthia S. Duncan |
THE NEED FOR CHANGE: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF MARIJUANA POLICY |
41 Connecticut Law Review 1701 (July, 2009) |
The Controlled Substances Act was enacted in 1970. Since that time, billions of dollars have been spent enforcing marijuana prohibition and millions of individuals have been arrested. Despite these efforts, there has been little to no success in controlling the availability of marijuana. Federal and state efforts to reduce marijuana production and... |
2009 |
Lars Noah |
THIS IS YOUR PRODUCTS LIABILITY RESTATEMENT ON DRUGS |
74 Brooklyn Law Review 839 (Spring, 2009) |
I. Introduction. 840 II. Flaws In Production. 841 A. Manufacturing Defects. 841 B. Design Defects. 842 1. MUDs and Child's Play. 848 2. Snowflakes (and Cost-Consciousness)in Medical Practice . 855 3. Myths About Designer (and Lifestyle) Drugs. 861 C. Case Studies . 868 1. Ritodrine. 869 2. Thalidomide. 872 3. Finasteride. 874 4. Polio Vaccines.... |
2009 |
Benjamin N. Roin |
UNPATENTABLE DRUGS AND THE STANDARDS OF PATENTABILITY |
87 Texas Law Review 503 (February, 2009) |
The role of the patent system in promoting pharmaceutical innovation is widely seen as a tremendous success story. This view overlooks a serious shortcoming in the drug patent system: the standards by which drugs are deemed unpatentable under the novelty and nonobviousness requirements bear little relationship to the social value of those drugs or... |
2009 |
The Honorable Robert W. Sweet |
WILL MONEY TALK?: THE CASE FOR A COMPREHENSIVE COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS |
20 Stanford Law and Policy Review 229 (2009) |
The War on Drugs has been a central concern of the justice system for the more than thirty years I have served as a federal district court judge in New York City. At the start of my tenure, it was a learning experience for me, as I was introduced to an industry with which I was unfamiliar, beyond the well-publicized stories of busts, codes, and... |
2009 |
Sarah Tope Reise |
"JUST SAY NO" TO PRO-DRUG AND ALCOHOL STUDENT SPEECH: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF SCHOOL PROHIBITIONS OF STUDENT SPEECH PROMOTING DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE |
57 Emory Law Journal 1259 (2008) |
Schools across the country prohibit students from promoting or advertising drugs and alcohol. Juneau-Douglas High School in Juneau, Alaska, is no different. So when a student, Joseph Frederick, unfurled a banner reading BONG HITS 4 JESUS while standing outside the school and watching the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay, Principal Deborah Morse requested... |
2008 |
Julie B. Ehrlich |
BREAKING THE LAW BY GIVING BIRTH: THE WAR ON DRUGS, THE WAR ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, AND THE WAR ON WOMEN |
32 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 381 (2008) |
The distinction between benefits and burdens is more than one of semantics. In the United States, women's reproductive capabilities have been used both to exalt and to oppress women. Women's unique role in reproduction has been used to refuse women the power to secure employment, to bar women from practicing in their chosen profession, and to... |
2008 |
Josh Bowers |
CONTRAINDICATED DRUG COURTS |
55 UCLA Law Review 783 (April, 2008) |
Over the past two decades, drug treatment courts have gained traction as popular alternatives to the conventional war on drugs and to its one-dimensional focus on incarceration. Specifically, the courts are meant to divert addicts from jails and prisons and into coerced treatment. Under the typical model, a drug offender enters a guilty plea and is... |
2008 |
Charleen Hsuan |
MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR RACE-BASED DRUGS |
41 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 443 (Summer, 2008) |
The FDA recently approved BiDil as a race-based drug and suggested that it was the first of many. This Note examines how Medicaid agencies should treat such race-based drugs. It begins by determining when it is medically appropriate for the FDA to approve a drug as a race-based drug. The Note then details the different ways that state Medicaid... |
2008 |
Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth , Ben-Gurion University, Department of Economics, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
ON TERROR, DRUGS AND RACIAL PROFILING |
28 International Review of Law & Economics 194 (September, 2008) |
JEL classification: K14 K42 Keywords: Racial profiling Statistical discrimination Terror Equity-efficiency trade-off We show that for racial profiling (defined as policy rules that employ statistical discrimination based on racial attributes) to be efficient in fighting ordinary crime, it needs to focus on the racial composition of marginal... |
2008 |
Michael Laufert |
RACE AND POPULATION-BASED MEDICINE: DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE |
21 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 859 (Summer, 2008) |
Racial and ethnic minorities have significantly poorer health compared to the United States population as a whole. Compared to the general population, African-Americans are more likely to die from diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and AIDS. These disparities can be attributed to several factors, including but not limited to racism,... |
2008 |
Nancy Morawetz |
RETHINKING DRUG INADMISSIBILITY |
50 William and Mary Law Review 163 (October, 2008) |
Changes in federal statutory policy, state criminal justice laws, and federal enforcement initiatives have led to an inflexible and zero-tolerance immigration policy with respect to minor drug use. This Article traces the evolution of the statutory scheme and how various provisions in state and federal law interact to create the current policy. It... |
2008 |
Michael Tonry, Matthew Melewski |
THE MALIGN EFFECTS OF DRUG AND CRIME CONTROL POLICIES ON BLACK AMERICANS |
37 Crime and Justice 1 (2008) |
The disproportionate presence of blacks in American prisons, jails, and Death Rows, and the principal reasons for it--higher rates of commission of violent crimes and racially disparate effects of drug policies and sentencing laws governing violent and drug crimes--are well known. Since the late 1980s, black involvement in violent crime has... |
2008 |
Nikki Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara |
UNEQUAL UNDER LAW: RACE IN THE WAR ON DRUGS. BY DORIS MARIE PROVINE. CHICAGO AND LONDON: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2007. PP. VIII+207. $18.00 PAPER |
42 Law and Society Review 934 (December, 2008) |
In recent years, a number of scholars have documented the accumulating consequences of America's decades-long commitment to imprisonment as the primary response to drug offenses. In Unequal Under Law, Doris Marie Provine adds to this important literature with her examination of the racialized histories of America's harshest drug policies. In six... |
2008 |
Andrew D. Black |
"THE WAR ON PEOPLE": REFRAMING "THE WAR ON DRUGS" BY ADDRESSING RACISM WITHIN AMERICAN DRUG POLICY THROUGH RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY COLLABORATION |
46 University of Louisville Law Review 177 (Fall 2007) |
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of every three African-American men between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine are under the control of the... |
2007 |
Andrew C. Mac Nally |
A FUNCTIONALIST APPROACH TO THE DEFINITION OF "COCAINE BASE" IN § 841 |
74 University of Chicago Law Review 711 (Spring 2007) |
Responding to the rise of crack cocaine in the early 1980s, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 (ADAA). The ADAA amended 21 USC § 841 of the criminal code by creating a system of mandatory minimum sentences for the possession of different substances. The act was passed quickly, generating little legislative history beyond the floor... |
2007 |
Norm Stamper |
AMERICA'S DRUG WAR AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY |
68 Montana Law Review 285 (Summer 2007) |
I believe that police officers can and must work hand-in-hand with the community to achieve public safety and, at the same time, safeguard constitutional guarantees. I believe the two go hand-in-glove. The largest number of violations of your civil liberties, of Americans' civil liberties, comes at the hands of police, at the federal, state, and... |
2007 |