1. Drug Crime
Class 1

2. Administrative Give quiz Return journals and paper proposals
Collect paper proposals?
Meaning of mid-term grades

3. Review Corporate Crime
The corporate crime myth is the opposite of all the others
Dying for a Job and Bernie Madoff and the Scamming of America

4. Today Drug Crime Myths History of Drug Regulation
Contemporary Drug Regulation
Key Ideas from Today

5. I. Drug Crime Myths Can you identify myths about drug crimes?
Distinction between legal drugs and illegal drugs?
Legal drugs and age limits

6. II. History of Drug Regulation
19th Century
Early 20th Century

7. II. History of Drug Regulation
Prohibition
Drug policy has remained one of prohibition

8. III. Contemporary Drug Regulation
1970 Controlled Substances Act (federal)
Rockefeller Drug Laws (New York)
How Dealers were defined
How Did These Laws Work?

9. III. Contemporary Drug Regulation
Later Approaches
Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Changes in state laws

10. IV. Key Ideas from Today’s Class
Drug Crime Myths
We did not always deal with drugs through the criminal justice system
Much of our drug law regime is based on myths and propaganda
Little evidence that punitive drug laws reduce drug use

11. Next Time Continue with drug crime
Focusing in particular on drug policies

12. Drug Crime
Class 2

13. Administrative Return quiz Any paper proposals to hand in?
Reminder, chapters in K&P are not always in order on the syllabus

14. Review
Drug myths
Drug regulation

15. Today Drug Crime Panic Impact of the drug regulation regime
Effect of drugs
Sensible drug policy
Key Ideas from Today

16. I. Drug Crime Panic – Crack Babies
Typical crime myth scenario
Crack baby hysteria fed by the media
Interpretation of the data
Served as excuse to toughen laws on crack use

17. II. Impact of Drug Regulation Regime
Impact on drug use
Impact of drugs on crime

18. II. Impact of Drug Regulation Regime
Impact on poor and minority communities
The “War on Drugs”

19. III. Effects of Drugs How dangerous are various controlled substances?
To users and to other parties?
Compared to various legal substances
What is the source of the danger?
Nature of the drug problem

20. IV. Sensible Drug Policy
Policy Debates
Drug policy choices
Law Enforcement
Prevention and Treatment

21. IV. Sensible Drug Policy
Drug policy choices
Public Health Approach
Legalization

22. V. Key Ideas from Today
Drug addiction often starts with prescription drugs that are over-prescribed
Have dealt with drugs via prohibition
Drug panics such as crack baby panic often based on hysteria rather than hard facts
Many of the alleged consequences of drugs are really consequences of drug regulation regime
What would be more sensible policies?

23. Next Time
Youth Crime