Crack In America by Craig Reinarman

Crack In America by Craig Reinarman

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Focuses on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, this book offers fresh understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right.

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Crack In America by Craig Reinarman

Focuses on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, this book offers fresh understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right.
Craig Reinarman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Harry G. Levine is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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ISBN 13 9780520202429
ISBN 10 0520202422
Title Crack In America
Author Craig Reinarman
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1997-09-01
Number of pages 359
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