Psychology 2043A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nanny

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2043A/B
• Professor: Esther Goldberg

Document Summary

Psych 2032a psychology of crime and correcions. Drugs are monsters cause people to kill and destroy. Nanny jeter lost her son to drugs (jarecki"s nanny) War on drugs has been a costly failure. Federal judges, journalists, poliicians, inmates and families trying to deal with drug users in their own homes. Jarecki (writer/director) lays out complex issues in accessible terms, delineaing a clear analysis of what the impact has been from the war on drugs. 100 billion dollars spent on drugs every year in the states. Poliical and inancial corrupion fueled the war on drugs despite moral and economic failure. Drug war began on the chase of dangerous narcoics. 2 million people in jail, 1 million of them are african-american (male) 13% of crack users in america are black, the majority are white/brown, but 90% of those convicted of drug felonies are african-american.