Table of Contents

Introduction; Marten W. Brienen and Jonathan D. Rosen PART I: CASE STUDIES 1. The Drug War's Damaging Impact on Mexico and Its Neighbors; Ted Galen Carpenter 2. Trends in Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Brazil; Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich 3. The War on Drugs in Colombia: A History of Failure; Jonathan D. Rosen 4. Understated Yet Turbulent: Narcotics Trafficking and the Criminalization of Guinea-Bissau; Bradford R. McGuinn PART II: THEMES 5. Drug Trafficking and the Street: An Anthropological View; J. Byran Page 6. Delinquency and Drug Use in the U.S.; Roger G. Dunham and Ana Maria Lobos 7. The Gang-Drug Nexus: Violence, Rhetoric, and Suppression in an FBI Safe Streets Task Force; Susan A. Phillips 8. A Resounding Success or a Disastrous Failure: Re-examining the Interpretation of Evidence on the Portuguese Decriminalisation of Illicit Drugs; Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes and Alex Stevens PART III: POLICY SOLUTIONS 9. Drug Use Among American Adolescents: An Examination of Prevention and Intervention Programs; Keri O'Neal and Steven L. West 10. The Legalization Debate: Mapping Change and Trends in the United States; Hanna Samir Kassab 11. A Change in the Approach to the Drug Problem in the Americas; Betty Horwitz 12. Enough is Enough: The Need for Prison Reform in the U.S.; Jonathan D. Rosen and Vanessa Rayan 13. The "War on Drugs": A Failed Paradigm; Fida Mohammad and Gregory Fulkerson

About the Author

Marten W. Brienen, Oklahoma State University, USA. Roger G. Dunham, University of Miami, USA. Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute, USA. Gregory Fulkerson, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA. Betty Horwitz, University of Miami, USA. Cailtin Elizabeth Hughes, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Australia. Hanna Samir Kassab, University of Miami, USA. Bradford R. McGuinn, University of Miami, USA. Fida Mohammed, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA. Keri K. O'Neal, California State University, USA. J. Bryan Page, University of Miami, USA. Susan A. Phillips, Pitzer College, USA. Vanessa Rayan, University of Miami, USA. Jonathan D. Rosen, Universidad del Mar, Mexico. Alex Stevens, University of Kent, UK. Steven L. West, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. Marcelo Rocha e Silva Zorovich, University of Miami, USA.