03264nam 22005415 450 991079896990332120230126214733.01-4798-2319-810.18574/9781479823192(CKB)3710000000915230(MiAaPQ)EBC4500655(OCoLC)961007215(MdBmJHUP)muse53922(DE-B1597)547381(DE-B1597)9781479823192(EXLCZ)99371000000091523020200723h20162016 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMeth Wars Police, Media, Power /Travis LinnemannNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (223 pages)Alternative Criminology ;111-4798-7869-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: The Methamphetamine Imaginary --1. Walter White’s Death Wish --2. This Is Your Race on Meth --3. Governing through Meth --4. The War Out There --5. Imagining Methland --6. Drug War, Terror War, Street Corner, Battlefield --Notes --References --Index --About the AuthorHow the War on Drugs is maintained through racism,authority and public opinion. From the hit television series Breaking Bad, to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly publicized world-wide hunts for “narcoterrorists” such as Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public’s imagination. In Meth Wars, Travis Linnemann situates the "meth epidemic" within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration.Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship to show how methamphetamine, and the drug war more generally, are part of a larger governing strategy that animates the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated concerns such as environmental dangers, the politics of immigration and national security, policing tactics, and terrorism. The author’s unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the supposed “meth epidemic” allows politicians, small town police and government counter-narcotics agents to engage in a singular policing project in service to the broader economic and geostrategic interests of the United States.Alternative criminology series.PoliceUnited StatesMinoritiesDrug useUnited StatesMethamphetamine abusePress coverageUnited StatesMethamphetamine abuseSocial aspectsUnited StatesPoliceMinoritiesDrug useMethamphetamine abusePress coverageMethamphetamine abuseSocial aspects362.29/950973Linnemann Travisauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1517984DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910798969903321Meth Wars3755289UNINA