SOC 5 Lecture Notes - Public Health Insurance Option, Misdemeanor, Lowkey
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Reagan speech- to rid america of this deeply corruptive and corrosive evil . Victory in this case is a drug free generation highest prison rates compared to any other country except formaybe russia. 3rd biggest business in america criminal justice good area to invest in. Incarceration rate of women has gone up exponentially because of incarceration for drugs. Children are used as informants even on their parents. What we see is not a war on drugs. It"s a war on poor people with drug involvement . Trying to make this area a better place to live . Trying to make the area safer ---they don"t have to live in a crime invested, drug-infested area. Research shows that if you have more cocaine arrests, you end up having more budgets. Can convince people that drugs are a bad thing. Police would now share in the assets seized.