Politics of Drug Control

Catalog description

Explores origins and evolution of national and global drug control policies and practice, with emphasis on impact of power and inequality in shaping patterns of criminalization and enforcement and more recent efforts at policy reform. Places modern U.S. War on Drugs in context by tracing patterns in developed and developing countries and as deliberated and implemented through international organizations. Students identify and analyze key concepts, theories and substantive materials on drug control; the political, economic, historical and social contexts shaping drug use, trafficking and control policies, and patterns of national, international and global responses.