Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power - Couverture souple

Linnemann, Travis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1479800023 ISBN 13 : 9781479800025

Editeur : New York University Press, 2016

Synopsis

How the War on Drugs is maintained through racism, authority and public opinion.

From the hit television series Breaking Bad, to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly publicized world-wide hunts for "narcoterrorists" such as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public's imagination. In Meth Wars, Travis Linnemann situates the "meth epidemic" within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration.

Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship to show how methamphetamine, and the drug war more generally, are part of a larger governing strategy that animates the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated concerns such as environmental dangers, the politics of immigration and national security, policing tactics, and terrorism. The author's unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the supposed "meth epidemic" allows politicians, small town police and government counter-narcotics agents to engage in a singular policing project in service to the broader economic and geostrategic interests of the United States.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Travis Linnemann is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University. Among other works, he is the author of our Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power, coauthor of Media and Crime in the US, and coeditor of our Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479800023
• ISBN 13: 9781479800025
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible