Title How the drug war ruins American lives / Arthur Benavie.

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Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2016]

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 224 pages)
Series	Gale virtual reference library
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.
Contents	Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Policing for profit -- The license to steal -- Traffic stops -- Houses arrested -- Swat raids -- Random drug sweeps -- Racial injustice -- Shutting the courthouse door -- Racial disparities -- Police bias in seattle -- Police bias in New York -- Covert operators -- Criminal informants -- Undercover police -- Citizenship barriers -- The criminal population -- Invisible punishments -- Drug testing -- Drug testing students -- Employee drug testing -- Is the war ending? -- Good news! -- The war's beneficiaries -- Summary and conclusions -- Inevitable damages -- Drug war benefits? -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Summary	This book reveals the disturbing truth about how the escalation of the War on Drugs over the past 30 years has eroded the human and property rights of Americans--while doing little to stop drug trafficking or use.
Language	English.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Drug control -- United States.
	Drug legalization -- United States.
	Drug testing -- United States.
	Social problems -- United States.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
	Drug control
	Drug legalization
	Drug testing
	Social problems
	United States
Other Form:	Print version: How the drug war ruins American lives 9781440850110 (OCoLC)929588791
ISBN	9781440850127 (electronic bk.)
	1440850127 (electronic bk.)
	9781440850110
	1440850119

Title How the drug war ruins American lives / Arthur Benavie.

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