Drugs, Crime, and Corruption Thinking the Unthinkable

Clutterbuck, Richard

ISBN 10: 0814715249 / ISBN 13: 9780814715246

Published by NYU Press, 1995

Very good with moderate wear to Dust Jacket and no Marks to text. Crime; 8.81 X 5.64 X 0.98 inches; 160 pages. Seller Inventory # 72210

Synopsis:

Crimes generated by the drug world are rampant. A full half of all murders in the United States are drug-related. Each year, 30,000 Columbians die violent deaths, victims of the drug trade. Fifty percent of all burglaries in Britain are committed by addicts to pay for their habit. And in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Mafia-style gangs are quickly learning how lucrative the drug trade can be.In an attempt to expose the links between crime, drugs, corruption, and terrorism throughout the world, expert Richard Clutterbuck here provides a profile of drug use world-wide. Drawing on the dramatic examples of Peru and Columbia as case studies, the book describes in detail the manufacture and distribution of cocaine, crack, heroin, cannabis, speed, ice, and LSD.

Solutions exist, Clutterbuck argues, not in Latin America or Asia, but on the streets of the West. At a time when policies of suppression are faltering and when the War on Drugs has clearly failed, Clutterbuck weighs the pros and cons of the alternatives: What would need to be done to make suppression work? Should some drugs be decriminalized? How effective has the Dutch experiment been? Is the licensing of drugs to cure addictions an effective remedy?

Review:

"This exciting book is based on the premise that we do not already know what Jewish identities are. Mapping Jewish Identities offers pathways away from essentialized notions of Jewishness and provides the intellectual tool for 'alternative modes of Jewish becoming.' A treat to read."-Miriam Peskowitz, author of "Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History" and coeditor with Laura Levitt of "Judaism since Gender"

"The pleasures and rewards of this volume are ample. Mapping Jewish Identities opens up--and reinvigorates--questions of Jewish identity and difference. En route to revealing the multiple possibilities of modern Jewish identity, it also succeeds in charting vital new routes for Jewish Cultural Studies today."-Ann Pellegrini, author of "Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race"

Bibliographic Details

Title: Drugs, Crime, and Corruption Thinking the ...
Publisher: NYU Press
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good