Something's in the air : race, crime, and the legalization of marijuana / / edited by Katherine Tate, James Lance Taylor, and Mark Q. Sawyer

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.29/50973
• Soggetto topico: Drug legalization - Social aspects - United States; Marijuana - United States; African Americans - Drug use; Hispanic Americans - Drug use; Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States; Minorities - United States - Social conditions
• Altri autori: SawyerMark Q. <1972-> TateKatherine TaylorJames Lance
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Editors' Introduction: Ending a War or Just California Dreamin'?; This Is Our Exit Strategy: The Case for Legalization; California Dreamin': The Case against Cannabis; The Chapters in This Volume; Notes; 1. Criminal Justice Costs of Prohibiting Marijuana in California; Existing Estimates of the Cost Marijuana Prohibition Imposes on California; Calculating the Costs for 2010; Community Corrections; Other Costs; Results; Discussion; Notes; 2. Public-Health Considerations in the Legalization Debate ; Drugs, Drug Laws, and African AmericansCase Study: Marijuana Arrests in Illinois; Marijuana and the Community Justice Model; Other Public-Health Impacts of Criminalizing Marijuana; Conclusion; Notes; 3. The Paths Not (Yet) Taken: Lower Risk Alternatives to Full-Market Legalization of Cannabis; Reflections on Prop 19; Home Cultivation; The Dutch Cannabis Coffee-Shop System; Cannabis Clubs and Licensing Models; Conclusions; Notes; 4. Why Did Proposition 19 Fail?; Theoretical Foundations; Our Survey; Statewide Electoral Data; Conclusion; Notes ; 5. Winds of Change: Black Opinion on Legalizing MarijuanaGrowing Support in the Black Community; Explaining Black Support for the Legalization of Marijuana; Conclusion: A New Direction in the Debate; 6. The Highs and Lows of Support for Marijuana Legalization Among White Americans; Modern Debates over Marijuana Legalization; Generational Explanations are Insufficient; Putting the Marijuana Debate in Context; The Emergence of Medical Marijuana; Conclusion and Discussion; Notes; 7. Building Minority Community Power Through Legalization; Black Deviance-White Innocence ; The Blumstein Effect: The Problem with Race Disproportionality and the War on DrugsGetting High versus Getting Free: Legalization as a Step toward Carceral System Reform; Conclusion; Notes; 8. The Latino Politics of Proposition 19: Criminal Justice and Immigration; The Anti-Mexican History of Marijuana Laws; Criminal Justice Politics; Immigration Politics; Conclusion; Notes; 9. No Half-Measures: Mexico's Quixotic Policy on California's Proposition 19; Mexico's Battle against Organized Crime; U.S. Cooperation in the Drug War; Mexico as a Consumer Nation; Previous Mexican Drug Decriminalization ; Mexican Voices for Change in Drug PolicyQuestionable Potential of Proposition 19; Tracing Calderón's Statements on Proposition 19; An International Drug Prohibition Regime Change; Other Expert Analyses; Conclusions; Notes; 10. The "Chronic" and Coercion: Exploring How Legalizing Marijuana Might Get the U.S. Government off the Backs and Throats of Americans (or, Not); The War against the Chronic (or, the Chronic War); Legalization; Drug "Wars" and Breaking Blacks: On Disciplining and Punishing; Chronic Conclusions; Notes; References; List of Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this volume, contributors ask how would marijuana legalization affect communities of color? This timely collection of original essays analyzes the policy debate by a range of scholars addressing political, economic, health, and empowerment issues.
• Titolo autorizzato: Something's in the air
• ISBN: 1-135-01705-0; 1-135-01706-9; 0-203-75838-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819817303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II