Search Results for War on Drugs

...Sandra Guerra Thompson © The Ohio State University Did the War on Drugs Die with the Birth of the War on Terrorism?: A Closer Look at Civil Forfeiture and Racial Profiling After 9/11 We stand at the threshold of a new era in law enforcementÐ or do we? The tragic events of September 11th make...

...Judge Whitman Knapp © The Ohio State University The War on Drugs* JUDGE WHITMAN KNAPP United States District Court (S.D.N.Y.) 186 I said I would talk about the War on Drugs That was a phrase rst popularized-as I recollect-by President Reagan, and then made the cornerstone of George Bush s...

...Stephen D. Easton © The Ohio State University Everybody Knows It, But Is It True? A Challenge to the Conventional Wisdom that the War on Drugs Is Ineffective STEPHEN D. EASTON* Associate Professor, University of MissouriColumbia School of Law. J.D., Stanford Law School, 1983. United States...

...Aliza Cohen; Melissa Moore This paper examines the multilayered dynamics behind the drivers of overdose deaths, criminal legal-system involvement, and the drug war infiltration of people’s everyday lives—especially for people under community supervision. While incarceration receives more media...

...Douglas A. Berman © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Re ecting on the Latest Drug War Fronts DOUGLAS A. BERMAN FSR Co-Managing Editor & Robert J. Watkins/Procter & Gamble Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law After decades in which sentencing reform...

...Douglas A. Berman © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS So Much Still to Understand about the Drug War s Sentencing Offensive DOUGLAS A. BERMAN This Issue of FSR emerges from a call for papers in conjunction with a conference on Understanding Drug Sentencing and Its Contributions...

...Ronald F. Wright © The Ohio State University Are the Drug Wars De-Escalating? Where to Look for Evidence Ever since the late 1980s, when it became common to refer to criminal enforcement of narcotics laws as a Òwar on drugs,Ó public concern about these crimes supported large enforcement...

...Melissa Hamilton Abstract The Drug War ushered in harsh sentencing practices in the United States. The severity in penalties has been particularly salient in the federal criminal justice system. Increased statutory penalties and U.S. Sentencing Commission guidelines led to drug users...

..., high-quality drug-conviction and sentencing data enable sentencing commissions and legislatures to act decisively on the basis of reason and not anecdotes. Commissions can play a vital role in understanding the decades-old war on drugs and charting a path for the future. This article provides...

..., the related line of Supreme Court cases, and more recently the First Step Act. Congress’s compromise correction of over twenty years (essentially a generation) of a failed war on crack did nothing to further correct similar defects with federal drug sentencing policies for other controlled substances...

... members an approach that recognizes harm, addresses the needs of people in a humane way, and increases public safety. Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion/Let Everyone Advance with Dignity (LEAD) is that response. Established in 2011 in Seattle in response to the failed War on Drugs, and its disparate...

... the flaws in five key aspects of the Standard Story: its argument that the War on Drugs is of central importance, that trends in violent and property crimes are relatively unimportant, that longer sentence lengths drive growth, that the “criminal justice system” is a fairly coherent entity advancing...

... of the war on drugs, a ripe opportunity for President Biden to recognize the harms caused by drug mandatory minimum sentencing.4 Advocates asked the White House to speak out on the issue, yet the White House remained silent.5 When the President does mention criminal justice reform, it feels forced...

..., selfserving enforcers who delighted in wielding the power of the state against people they disliked. III. Postwar Drug War I California s antidrug campaign simmered down during World War I as other priorities arose. (Inspector Boden, for example, temporarily gave up state drug law enforcement to become...

...Erik Luna Drug Détente ERIK LUNA Hugh B. Brown Chair in Law and Professor of Law, University of Utah College of Law; Adjunct Scholar, The Cato Institute Like previous election cycles, the 2008 presidential campaign has focused heavily on various wars, their costs and consequences, from...

... drug use as the true evil, the necessity of perserverance and unyielding stringency is an article of faith. Nonetheless, there are signs that the ground is shifting. Public concern about drug abuse as a major issue in American life may be ebbing. The notion that Òthe drug war is a failureÓ has become...

.... At the beginning of the War on Drugs, Americans were told [I]f we cannot destroy the drug menace in America, then it will surely in time destroy us (Nixon, 1971), and these warnings are still with us today. There is a strong presumption that the public expects and demands harsh penalties for drug users...

... strategies. Yet, in recent years, policy and public sentiment have changed toward drug-related crimes, and growing critiques of the so-called war on drugs and of drug sentencing have greatly in uenced public beliefs about the use of long-term prison sentences for drug offenders.3 Long-term incarceration...

... It simply makes no sense for the DCT to continue treating it signi cantly more harshly than it treats cocaine, for example. The well-documented harms of the war on drugs certainly extend beyond incarceration.29 As a result, dismantling these harms will not be the job of the Sentencing Commission alone...

...Douglas A. Berman © The Ohio State University Leveraging Marijuana Reform to Enhance Expungement Practices I. Introduction State legislators and the general public are expressing evergreater concerns about the myriad costs of the war on drugs and the punitive treatment of less serious...