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