From Criminalizing to Decriminalizing Marijuana (eBook)

The Politics of Social Control

Nikolay Anguelov (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
176 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498566230 (ISBN)

Infos

This book juxtaposes the history of anti-marijuana legislation in America with its growing use and social acceptance. It tracks the evolution of cultural and political factors that fuel the current diffusion of cannabis decriminalization.

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This book tracks the political history and specific political actions associated with the diffusion of state-level marijuana decriminalization. It provides an integrated chronology of policy diffusion to show how social and cultural changes have impacted the shift from anti- to pro-marijuana political platforms. The main contributions are an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing policy learning and evolution, an overview of the political history of marijuana criminalization, a clear synthesis of the medical literature on cannabis effects, and a supply and demand analysis of legal and illegal marijuana markets in America. For scholars of criminal justice, law, political science, policy studies, sociology and addiction, it provides an amalgam of the diverse and divergent extant research on marijuana.

Autor

Nikolay Anguelov is assistant professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Michael P. McCarthy is research associate at the Public Policy Center, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1: Criminalizing Marijuana: The Diffusion of Anti-Marijuana Laws from the Southern Border to the Federal GovernmentNikolay Anguelov and Michael P. McCarthyChapter 2: Counter Culture and Drug Use: Civil Rights, Political Activism and the Proliferation of Marijuana ConsumptionChapter 3: Fighting Counter Culture and Building Conservative Political Clout: Marijuana as the "Gateway" ScapegoatChapter 4: The Escalating Costs of Fighting the War on Drugs from the 1990s to Today: Markets, Governments, and Drug BaronsChapter 5: The Addiction Question: Is Marijuana Addictive or Not?Chapter 6: Decriminalization: The Beginning of New Political EntrepreneurshipChapter 7: Policy Diffusion in Action: Actors and Factors that Fuel Marijuana ReformNikolay Anguelov and Michael P. McCarthyChapter 8: Who is For What? A Data Analysis of Expected Benefits from Cannabis ReformChapter 9: The Future: Expected Benefits, Born Costs and Unintended ConsequencesReferences

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2018
• Co-Autor: Michael McCarthy
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 6 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: anti-marijuana legislation • Cannabis • Counter Culture • criminalization • Decriminalization • drug abuse • Drug Law • Marijuana • marijuana laws • Policy Diffusion • Policy Entrepreneurship • policy learning • substance abuse • War on Drugs
• ISBN-13: 9781498566230 / 9781498566230