New Approaches to Drug Policies: A Time for Change

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Drug War’s Damaging Impact on Mexico and Its Neighbors....Pages 17-34
Trends in Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Brazil....Pages 35-57
The War on Drugs in Colombia: A History of Failure....Pages 58-72
Understated Yet Turbulent: Narcotics Trafficking and the Criminalization of Guinea-Bissau....Pages 73-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Drug Trafficking and the Street: An Anthropological View....Pages 91-101
Delinquency and Drug Use in the US....Pages 102-120
The Gang-Drug Nexus: Violence, FBI Safe Streets Task Force....Pages 121-136
A Resounding Success or a Disastrous Failure: Re-examining the Interpretation of Evidence on the Portuguese Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs....Pages 137-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Drug Use Among American Adolescents: An Examination of Prevention and Intervention Programs....Pages 165-176
The Legalization Debate: Mapping Change and Trends in the United States....Pages 177-193
A Change in the Approach to the Drug Problem in the Americas....Pages 194-212
Enough Is Enough: The Need for Prison Reform in the US....Pages 213-228
The “War on Drugs”: A Failed Paradigm....Pages 229-249
Back Matter....Pages 251-255