CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Crack Cocaine, Black Market, Drug Possession

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

Document Summary

Morality and crime (part 2) (wwek 5 feb 7) Politics and criminal justice policy: the war on drugs (cont) Conclusion: the war on drugs was nothing but a failure: effects. Produced a range of negative side effects and consequences (both intentional and not: cost: the war on drugs has been expensive. An expensive war to wage in many countries mostly in the us. 1980-1990: an increase in financial expenditures and cost on the war on drugs anti-drug efforts (19 billion 1992) 1982-1992 an increase = estimated 40 agencies were programmed to wage the war on drugs: explosion of the prison population: 1980-2013: the federal prison population increased by 790% ??? this is due to the increase of fairly minor drug offences (possession not trafficking) mostly possession of marijuana. 1984-2011 average drug sentences increased from 39 months to 74 months: systemic discrimination and the war on people of colour. The impact of drug policy on racial groups.