Analytic Assessment of U.S. Drug Policy

Contributor(s): Boyum, David (Author), Reuter, Peter (Author)

ISBN: 9780844741918

Publisher: AEI Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

$20.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$32.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$31.75 (100+ copies: $31.00)

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$20.00

Pub Date: December 1, 2005

Dewey: 362.29156109

LCCN: 2004029541

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.60" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.35 lbs) 133 pages

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Series: AEI Evaluative Studies

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Description:

This is a rigorous, eye-opening evaluation of America's $35 billion drug war, where David Boyum and Peter Reuter use a market framework to examine the epidemics of heroin, cocaine, and crack, mass incarceration, drug enforcement, and federal narcotics laws, showing why treatment, methadone maintenance, and coerced abstinence programs may offer smarter, cheaper, and more effective answers to drug abuse and crime than tougher policing ever could.

This book concludes that AmericaOs drug policy should be reoriented in several ways to be more effective.

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