Operation Intercept
The Multiple Consequences of Public Policy
- 1st Edition - October 22, 2013
- Author: Lawrence A. Gooberman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 1 3 6 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 4 6 1 0 - 2
Operation Intercept: The Multiple Consequences of Public Policy analyzes the taken-for-granted reality of the search-and-destroy anti-marihuana legislation. This book focuses on… Read more
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Request a sales quoteOperation Intercept: The Multiple Consequences of Public Policy analyzes the taken-for-granted reality of the search-and-destroy anti-marihuana legislation. This book focuses on the Operation Intercept, a policy that aims to control the importation of illegal drugs, marihuana in particular, across the United States-Mexican border. Chapter 1 discusses the objectives of Operation Intercept and the factors and assumptions underlying this policy. Chapter 2 examines the availability of marihuana during the Operation Intercept period and the unanticipated consequences of such policy decision. Chapter 3 presents data that confirms marihuana shortage in New York City during the summer and early fall of 1969. Lastly, Chapter 4 provides an appraisal of anti-drug policies in the past and an examination of the general drug abuse problem in the United States. Sociologists who are interested in deviant behavior and social problems will find this book invaluable.
Preface Notes Acknowledgments1. Operation Intercept: The Policy and the Research Problem Factors and Assumptions Underlying the New Public Policy Operation Intercept: Immediate, Intermediate, and Ultimate Goals Purpose of the Study, Applied Theoretical Perspectives, and Hypotheses Formulation of the Research Problem and Methodology Notes 2. The Multiple Consequences of Operation Intercept The Availability of Marijuana During the Operation Intercept Era Summary Behavioral Reactions to the General Marijuana Shortage Abstaining and Decreased Drug Use Switching: The Availability and Use of Drugs Other than Marijuana Summary Attitudinal Responses to the Government Policy Summary Trusting Attitudes Distrustful Attitudes Notes 3. Analysis of the Findings: Public Policy and the Drug Abuse Problem The Findings Additional Evidence Concerning the Unanticipated Consequences of Operation Intercept The Social Context of Operation Intercept: An Examination of Contingent Conditions Traditional Controls in a Decade of Change The Ineffectiveness of Traditional Controls and the Formation of the Operation Intercept Policy An Analysis of the Differential Effects of Operation Intercept Notes 4. Operation Intercept: Past, Present, and Future Notes Appendix I. Members of the Narcotics, Marijuana and Dangerous Drugs Task Force II. The Interview Guide III. Findings from Gross Point Study: Interview Excerpts Index
- No. of pages: 226
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 22, 2013
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483113685
- eBook ISBN: 9781483146102
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