The Failure of the War on Drugs: Charting a New Course for the Commonwealth
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Jul. 14, 2009
ANNOTATION: The need to reevaluate drug sentencing practices that can be replaced with sentencing alternatives that meet the same public safety concerns at better levels of effectiveness is explained. Six sections follow an executive summary: introduction; prevention and education -- saving lives and saving dollars; reforming punitive sentencing; treatment works; conclusions -- a diagnosis of policy flaws; and recommendations -- a new direction. "By re-shaping drug policies to make them less punitive, more effective and more cost-effective, enforcement can be devoted to policing violent crime, and to keeping our streets safer" (p. 1).
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