Assassin Of Youth

Author : Alexandra Chasin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226277028

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Assassin of Youth by Alexandra Chasin Pdf

Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States’ little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing racial and immigrant groups and perhaps best known for his zealous pursuit of harsh drug penalties and his particular animus for marijuana users. But what made Anslinger who he was, and what cultural trends did he amplify and institutionalize? Having just passed the hundredth anniversary of the Harrison Act—which consolidated prohibitionist drug policy and led to the carceral state we have today—and even as public doubts about the drug war continue to grow, now is the perfect time to evaluate Anslinger’s social, cultural, and political legacy. In Assassin of Youth, Alexandra Chasin gives us a lyrical, digressive, funny, and ultimately riveting quasi-biography of Anslinger. Her treatment of the man, his times, and the world that arose around and through him is part cultural history, part kaleidoscopic meditation. Each of the short chapters is anchored in a historical document—the court decision in Webb v. US (1925), a 1935 map of East Harlem, FBN training materials from the 1950s, a personal letter from the Treasury Department in 1985—each of which opens onto Anslinger and his context. From the Pharmacopeia of 1820 to death of Sandra Bland in 2015, from the Pennsylvania Railroad to the last passenger pigeon, and with forays into gangster lives, CIA operatives, and popular detective stories, Chasin covers impressive ground. Assassin of Youth is as riotous and loose a history of drug laws as can be imagined—and yet it culminates in an arresting and precise revision of the emergence of drug prohibition. Today, even as marijuana is slowly being legalized, we still have not fully reckoned with the racist and xenophobic foundations of our cultural appetite for the severe punishment of drug offenders. In Assassin of Youth, Chasin shows us the deep, twisted roots of both our love and our hatred for drug prohibition.

Author : Alexandra Chasin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226276977

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Assassin of Youth by Alexandra Chasin Pdf

"Assassin of Youth" is a lyrical, digressive, funny, and ultimately riveting quasi-biography of a little known man: Harry J. Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The J. Edgar Hoover of pot busts, Anslinger played a major role in the creation of America s prohibitionist drug policy and the racist and ineffective carceral state that resulted. But Anslinger himself was dull, ordinary, a square. How then does Alexandra Chasin write his biography? Her treatment of Anslinger, his times, and the mentalities that arose and prevailed around and through him is part cultural history, part lyrical meditation, and only part biography. Each of her short chapters is anchored in a historical document a piece of legislation, a court decision, snatches of popular literature and the chapters engage with the voices, presumptions, insights, and blind spots of those documents to illuminate Anslinger and his world. "Assassin of Youth" is as riotous and loose a history of drug laws as can be imagined and yet, it is rooted in very close attention to language and context. Today, even as marijuana is slowly being legalized, we have not yet fully reckoned with the haze of influences and mentalities that have enabled our long embrace of severe punishments for drug possession and use. Alexandra Chasin here shows us the deep, twisted roots of our love and hatred of drugs of all sorts."

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drugs and youth
ISBN : UOM:39015082590343

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Drug paraphernalia and youth by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Pdf

Author : Larry K. Gaines,Janine Kremling
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478613183

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Drugs, Crime, and Justice by Larry K. Gaines,Janine Kremling Pdf

The twenty-six articles in this edited volume provide perspective on the interrelated issues surrounding the use of drugs in society. Although drugs have long been a social problem, the importance of the issue—and the involvement of the criminal justice system—have varied across time. Public concern has typically centered on illegal drugs, but the drug issue today is even more complex given the impact of prescription drugs. Exaggeration has been a constant theme in the history of public policy on drugs, usually playing on public fear to demonize specific drugs and users. Some drugs are more dangerous than others. The variations in effects impact enforcement, prevention, and treatment. If we are going to criminalize drugs and drug usage, policies and penalties should be based on the relative dangerousness of a drug or class of drugs. Policies can reduce harm, create harm, or both. Our current drug policies attempt to reduce harm through law enforcement. We arrest anyone involved in drug activities under the premise of protecting society. These same policies, however, result in the incarceration of large numbers of people; they are expensive; they overburden the criminal justice system; and they have lasting consequences for those caught up in the drug war no matter how minor their offenses. Drug policies should be weighed carefully, implementing those that result in the least amount of harm to society. The editors have collected timely articles that provide perspective and a foundation for an informed approach to addressing problems associated with drug use.

Author : Glen R. Hanson,Peter J. Venturelli,Annette E. Fleckenstein
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781449689872

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Drugs and Society by Glen R. Hanson,Peter J. Venturelli,Annette E. Fleckenstein Pdf

Updated to keep pace with the latest data and statistics, Drugs and Society, Twelfth Edition, contains the most current information available concerning drug use and abuse. Written in an objective and user-friendly manner, this best-selling text continues to captivate students by taking a multidisciplinary approach to the impact of drug use and abuse on the lives of average individuals. A new modern design and robust ancillary package help students understand and retain key learning objectives from each chapter and prepare for class. Contact Your Account Specialist About Our Money Saving Package Options! • Package A: Contains print text plus FREE print Student Study Guide (ISBN: 978-1-284-05478-1) • Package B: Contains print text plus FREE eBook Access Code (ISBN: 978-1-284-05821-5) • Package C: Contains print text plus FREE Navigate Access Code (ISBN: 978-1-284-05586-3)

Author : Christopher Hugh Partridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190459116

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High Culture by Christopher Hugh Partridge Pdf

Le site de l'éditeur indique : "Throughout history, humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. This book traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the modern West. Starting with the Romantic fascination with opium, it goes on to chronicle the discovery of anesthetics, psychiatric and religious interest in hashish, the bewitching power of mescaline and hallucinogenic fungi, as well as the more recent uses of LSD. It fills a major gap in our understanding of contemporary alternative and in the study of countercultures and popular culture. Today we are seeing increased social and scientific attention to both the positive and the negative effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly following the legalization of marijuana for medicinal and/or recreational use in some US states, as well as court cases involving the sacramental use of drugs. This fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the controversial relationship between drugs and spirituality could not be more timely."

Author : Blackman, Shane
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335200726

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Chilling Out by Blackman, Shane Pdf

The author critically examines the assumptions underlying drug prohibition and explores the contradictions of drug prevention policies.

Author : L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765390493

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Assassin's Price by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Pdf

The Imager Porfolio is a bestselling and innovative epic fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr. that RT Book Reviews says “shines with engrossing characters, terrific plotting, and realistic world-building.” Continue a new story arc with Assassin's Price. Six years have passed since the failed uprising of the High Holders, and Charyn, the rex’s heir, has come of age and sets out to educate himself, against his father’s wishes, on how to be an effective rex after his father. When privateers attack the rex’s ships, and threats escalate against the rex and his family, Charyn realizes that no one is safe--for an assassin stalks them all. The future of Solidar rests in Charyn’s hands. Will he rise to the challenge or will the kingdom descend into chaos? The Imager Portfolio #1 Imager / #2 Imager’s Challenge / #3 Imager’s Intrigue / #4 Scholar / #5 Princeps / #6 Imager’s Battalion / #7 Antiagon Fire / #8 Rex Regis / #9 Madness in Solidar / #10 Treachery’s Tools / #11 Assassin’s Price Other series by this author: The Saga of Recluce The Corean Chronicles The Spellsong Cycle The Ghost Books The Ecolitan Matter At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Dao Yan
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649482549

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Youth Peak by Dao Yan Pdf

A dark path was too lonely and extreme! For love? For justice? For power? For money? Li Wenfeng, this godlike man, was brought to the peak of the underworld.

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0520079086

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The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films by American Film Institute Pdf

"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Author : Susan C. Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135909253

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Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. by Susan C. Boyd Pdf

Drawing on over 100 films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006, which focus on illegal drugs and their consequences, this book examines representations of discourse about users, traffickers, criminal justice, and treatment.

Author : Joseph R. Hayden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040040249

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A History of Disinformation in the U.S. by Joseph R. Hayden Pdf

This volume recounts notable episodes of distortion throughout American media history. It examines several of the lurid hoaxes and conspiracy theories that have inspired press coverage, as well as some of the political lies promoted by partisan gladiators, whether of the eighteenth century or today. The book moves beyond the sensational stories to show the enduring and systemic nature of media manipulation that occurs on far more consequential issues. It exposes persistent and deeply destructive falsehoods that have been told about women, people of color, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, unions, commercial products, highlighting how longstanding “bipartisan” myths have effectively marginalized certain groups of Americans. Alongside these cases, the author carefully dissects the changing nature of institutions, technologies, and practices of journalism in America. Attention is given to the evolution of newspapers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the role of broadcasting in the twentieth, and the impact of the internet and social media at the dawn of the twenty-first. This book will appeal to readers interested in American history, journalism, communication studies, political science and sociology.

Author : Nanette J. Davis
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015043763567

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Youth Crisis by Nanette J. Davis Pdf

What is the social condition of youth in modern society? This is the question taken up by this passionate and substantive book. The author argues that youth are at a crisis state. The crisis has been brought about by the general state of social crisis; violence, questions of political legitimacy, educational decline; as well as the decline of compassion as a core principle of culture. The author draws on a variety of trends and scholarly research to examine the problems of growing up in a high risk society and offers pathways to spiritual renewal and cultural renewal, esential for salvaging the next generation. The study takes on the youth crisis as a compelling public issue, exploring various manifestations of the crisis; endangered youth, gang participation, youth addictions, unworkable schools, violence in the home and on the streets, homelessness, and the near genocidal conditions that plague African American and urban youth. Students, educators, and policy makers, as well as anyone interested in the plight of youth and the steps necessary to successfully overcome the crisis will find this book invaluable and memorable.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Juvenile delinquency
ISBN : UCAL:B3354854

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California Youth Authority Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551994949

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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Pdf

“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase family secrets. Among these is “The Blind Assassin,” a novel that earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, it was a pulp fantasy improvised by two unnamed lovers who meet secretly in rented rooms and seedy cafés. As this novel-within-a-novel twists and turns through love and jealousy, self-sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real narrative, as both move closer to war and catastrophe. Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning sensation combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding tale.