Drug Policy and the Decline of the American City

ISBN-13: 9781138522473 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 280 str.

Sam Staley

Opis

The drug trade is a growth industry in most major American cities, fueling devastated inner-city economies with revenues in excess of $100 billion. In this timely volume, Sam Staley provides a detailed, in-depth analysis of the consequences of current drug policies, focusing on the relationship between public policy and urban economic development and on how the drug economy has become thoroughly entwined in the urban economy.

Spis treści

I: Institutions, Economic Growth, and the Modern City; 1: Setting the Stage: Central City Decline and the Rise of the Drug Economy; 2: Law, Order, and Economic Development in the Modern City; 3: The Changing Values of the Central City; II: Foundations of the Drug Economy; 4: Drug Use and Abuse in America; 5: Drug Trafficking as an Understandable Market Response: Urban Youth and the Drug Economy; 6: The Organization of the Drug Economy; III: Public Policy and the Drug Economy; 7: The Drug War and the Growth of the Drug Economy; 8: The Decriminalization Alternative; IV: Conclusion; 9: Decriminalization, the Drug Economy, and the Future of American Cities

O autorze

Sam Staley