| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Crack in context : America's latest demon drug / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Crack attack : politics and media in the crack scare / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- In search of Horatio Alger : culture and ideology in the crack economy / Phillipe Bourgois -- Contingent call of the pipe : bingeing and addiction among heavy cocaine smokers / Craig Reinarman [and others] -- Two women who used cocaine too much : class, race, gender, crack, and coke / Sheigla B. Murphy and Marsha Rosenbaum -- Crack and homicide in New York City : a case study in the epidemiology of violence / Paul J. Goldstein [and others] -- Social pharmacology of smokeable cocaine : not all it's cracked up to be / John P. Morgan and Lynn Zimmer -- Crack use in Canada : a distant American cousin / Yuet W. Cheung and Patricia G. Erickson -- Crack in Australia : why is there no problem? / Stephen K. Mugford -- Crack in the Netherlands : effective social policy is effective drug policy / Peter D.A. Cohen -- "When constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure" : the crack scare's impact on civil rights and liberties / Ira Glasser and Loren Siegel -- Pregnancy police fight the war on drugs / Loren Siegel -- Pattern, purpose, and race in the drug war : the crisis of credibility in criminal justice / Troy Duster -- Drug prohibition in the U.S. : costs, consequences, and alternatives / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- Punitive prohibition in America / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Cultural contradictions of punitive prohibition / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine -- Real opposition, real alternatives : reducing the harms of drug use and drug policy / Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Crack (Drug) -- United States.
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Crack (Drug) |
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United States. |
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Cocaine abuse -- United States.
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Cocaine abuse. |
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Drug control -- United States.
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Drug control. |
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Drugs and mass media -- United States.
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Drugs and mass media. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Reinarman, Craig.
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Levine, Harry Gene.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Crack in America. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997 0520202414 (DLC) 96047765 (OCoLC)35842613 |
| ISBN |
9780520916913 (electronic book) |
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0520916913 (electronic book) |
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0585091072 (electronic book) |
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9780585091075 (electronic book) |
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9780520202412 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520202414 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520202429 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520202422 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520202414 |
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0520202422 |
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