Making Matters Worse "Drug abuse is a serious problem, both for individual citizens and society at large, but the 'war on drugs' has made matters worse." -Ethan A. Nadelmann The prohibitionist approach to the war on drugs, just like the temperance movement of th...

George W. Bush spends almost $200 million dollars per year to fight the "War on Drugs." You probably didn't notice this because the only results we've seen have been in the form of misguiding commercials claiming that "buying drugs supports terrorism," or "marijuana can get you busted". But is it re...

The link between drug use and crime is not a new one. For more than twenty years, both the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice have funded many studies to try to better understand the connection. One such study was done in Baltimore on heroin users. This study f...

Throughout my time as a criminal justice student, I have been interested about the relationship between drugs and crime. I have also been amazed by the statistics having to do with the amount of prisoners returning to a correctional facility after their time served. The link between drug use and cr...

Crime and Drug Use Throughout my time as a criminal justice student, I have been interested about the relationship between drugs and crime. I have also been amazed by the statistics having to do with the amount of prisoners returning to a correctional facility after their time served. The link be...

Although it is apparent that America\'s drug plague is reaching epidemic proportions, costing US taxpayers an estimated 20 billion dollars in a year, the legalization of drugs cannot be economically justified. Despite pro-legalization arguments, the estimated economic benefit that would be derived f...

The decriminalization of illegal drugs in America has been a growing debate within both political and community circles for many years now. A lot of people can say that there are advantages on both sides of the argument. However, I believe that maintaining and enforcing our laws agains...

Should Drug Use Be Decriminalized? "Nadelmann argues that the present policy [on drugs] does not work and that it is counterproductive. Legalization, he contends, would stop much of the disease, violence, and crime associated with illegal drugs." Nadelmann then continues with his idea...

Crime and Drug Use federal tax dollars to fund these therapeutic communities in prisons. I feel that if we teach these prisoners some self-control and alternative lifestyles that we can keep them from reentering the prisons once they get out. I am also going to describe some of today's programs that...

Everyone knows what illegal drugs are and how the people who do illegal drugs are deemed in societies throughout the world. The basis of this can easily be defined from what Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke stated in The Human Project; \"For them, the effectiveness of the social contract depe...

Drug Courts came about as a result of a backlogged court system and a steady, rapidly increasing prison population. Drug courts are a form of diversion that helps the offender through rehabilitation and the community through an increased sense of protection, which serves the best interest of everyon...

LEGALIZATION OF DRUGSAmerica has been plagued with drug problems for years, and in recent years it isn't proving to get much better. Society has been left to deal with the pain, fear, terror, and crime that the drug world has brought upon us. Many believe that America's problems with drugs, crime,...

Proposition 36, the Substance Abuse Crime Prevention Act was passed and rightly so because, first and second time drug offenders should receive the therapeutic treatment they need. After the sentence most of the offenders come out of jail worse than when they went into jail. Drug addicts and alco...

As we all know the government has some sort of control over the people living in the United States and play a role in our every day lives. They give us rules to live by even though we are guaranteed our freedom in the Declaration of Independence. These rules we are expected to live by are said to...

The war on drugs has been an ongoing issue among Americans for many years. The fight against illegal substances for the body has, however, been narrowed over recent years and focused on the drug Marijuana. Countless men and women have tried, used or use the drug hiding from the law enforcement off...

In 1933 the Prohibition on Alcohol was repealed, and the consumption of alcohol was finally made legal, soon after this legalization, Congress passed a law making laws against drugs in the United States. It has been determined by many scholars that ending alcohol prohibition was more harmful in the...

Everyday there is a war being waged on America's inner city streets--a war between residents, drug dealers and the people sworn to protect one from the other. This war has its casualties, none greater than L.A.P.D. Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris, a 13-year veteran narcotics officer whose questiona...

Originally there was no negative meaning tied to the word gang. In the Old English language referred to a group of people that hung out together. In this modern day when we think of gangs we think of bloods, crypts, violence and drugs. Gangs are a form of organized crime. At the top of the gang i...

The Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana has been one of the most discussed topics by politicians recently. Ever since 1937, when marijuana was criminalized, there have been many people who have become successful members of society and still smoked marijuana. These people ris...

The answer to this question is astounding: the U.S. incarcerates 25% of the world's prison population with only 7% of the world's population. This is a disturbing anamoly in the history of the world. Never before has a country been able to incarcerate so many people at such a high rate, ...

Forty years ago, teachers said that the worst problems in their schools were students chewing gum and talking during class. Wouldn't it be wonderful if those were still our biggest problems. Unfortunately, however, teachers are struggling "Recently, a group of juveniles invaded a Meadowview...

When most people think of the problems in Colombia, they believe they are drug related. The truth, however, is that Colombia has more problems than that. Over the last 38 years, the country has been involved in a civil war in which leftist rebels have been pitted against the government and other p...

This articles' main focal point is on the social deterioration of ghetto neighborhoods, with residents saying their community has gone "from bad to worse". For example, in the neighborhood of Woodlawn, located on the southside of Chicago, there were over eight hundred commercial and i...

In theory there is a rational difference between police profiling\' and racial discrimination\'. However, in actuality this distinction is open to suspicion of racial and other biases towards minorities and marginalized communities and cultures. The profiler is often seen as a discriminator ...

Life in America is full of options and opportunities, for most. Many people in our society try to make a living in a legitimate fashion. However, this ideal way of life is not always an option. For some the best option is to turn to the black market to make their money. The largest and most lucrati...