How the drug war ruins American lives / Arthur Benavie

Author:: Benavie, Arthur
Published:: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2016.
Physical Description:: xv, 224 pages ; 25 cm

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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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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ISBN:

9781440850110 (print ; alk. paper)
1440850119 (print ; alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2016

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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