E-Books →The Search for Rational Drug Control

They argue that protection of children and youth should shape policy toward illicit crime, with attention to the fact that youth protection objectives may limit the effectiveness of some drug controls.
How are policy choices identified, debated and selected?
How are the consequences of governmental policy measured and evaluated?
How, if at all, do we learn from our mistakes?
* Presents comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States
* Both authors are experts and previously published authors in the field of drug policy
* Suggestions are made for improving the drug control policy process
Contents
List of tables and figures page
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One. The drug problem
Introduction
1. Ideology and policy: A look at the National Drug Control Strategy
2. What is a drug? And other basic issues
3. Prohibitions and the lessons of history
4. The wrong question: Critical notes on the decriminalization debate
Part Two. The drug control policy process
Introduction
5. The universal proposition: Children and drug control policy
6. Drug control policy and street crime
7. The federal role in a national drug strategy
8. Memorandum to a new drug czar
Appendix: Estimates of illicit drug use - a survey of methods
References
Index
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