CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: George H. W. Bush, Police Corruption, Nancy Reagan

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Morality and crime 2 - the war on drugs . Politics and criminal justice policy the war on drugs : ronald regan, neo-conservatism, and the contemporary war on drugs (drugs were public enemy #1) 1981 - came into of ce, through the 1980s. Concern with the use of crack cocaine, in the mid 1980s. Judgements that went through to george bush sr. ushered in because they believed the us got rid of there competitive advantage, their economy wasn"t very good. As the government was being scaled back, there was a ideological shift that traced social problems to individual choices (crime, drug use, etc. ) Justi cation for reducing social supports, and using criminal law to regulate individual users: principles and tactics 80s-90s, reduce supply - volume of drugs coming to the us and canada. Domestic drug enforcement. (mandatory minimum sentences for drug. In particular, most of the cost has been initiated and born by the us.