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The War on drugs : winners and losers
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Is the war on drugs in the U.S. causing greater societal harm than the problem of drug abuse itself? This provocative program features interviews with Bruce Benson and David Rasmussen, co-authors o...
Is the war on drugs in the U.S. causing greater societal harm than the problem of drug abuse itself? This provocative program features interviews with Bruce Benson and David Rasmussen, co-authors of Illicit Drugs and Crime; Eric Sterling, former Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee; Joanne Page, director of the Fortune Society; and others. Together they indict flawed initiatives that have made criminal forfeitures into a cash cow, private corrections into a highly profitable industry, social workers and doctors into informants, and children of convicted mothers into wards of the state. Powerful statistics and case studies support their claims.
Details
- Creator
- SND Films
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2006], c1999
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (93 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn707971541
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on July 29, 2006.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Ronald Reagan Introduces the War on Drugs (4:13) -- Seized Assets and Police Motivation (4:47) -- Guilty Until Proven Innocent (4:29) -- Drug Enforcement Funded Through Seized Assets (6:15) -- Incentives for Citizen Informants (5:49) -- Problems With the Criminal Justice System (5:20) -- Effect of Criminal Justice System on Low Income Communties (5:35) -- Criminal Justice: A Guaranteed Growth Industry (6:16) -- Comparing Prison Sentences Between Violent and Non-Violent Criminals (5:03) -- Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offenders (5:57) -- Ineffective Criminal Justice Policies (6:07) -- Convictions as Measures of Success (5:49) -- Children in Foster Homes (5:10) -- Raising Children Without Families (2:48) -- Drug Addicts Giving Birth and Going to Jail (8:14) -- Lacking Treatment for Drug Addiction (3:32) -- Death by Overdose: A Preventable Fatality (3:14) -- Surveillance and Informants in the War on Drugs (2:25)