INTL 4997: The Mexican Drug trade | Reading Response #3 | | | Audrey Robert | 10/31/2012 | | David Mares gives us insight into the political economy of drug trafficking in his book Drug Wars and Coffee Houses. To help us understand how psychoactive substances are organized and distributed‚ he uses the concept of a commodity chain. A commodity chain is the system that links consumption of psychoactive substances to everything that makes it possible‚ and proves that if something
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people. Not only has this caused a problem inside the prison walls‚ it has also increased economic situations for stakeholders.The recent increase in incarceration rates has had negative effects on the United States economy by causing an increase in expenditure on prisons that could be better used for education. This increase in incarceration rates has also led to overcrowding in prisons‚ leading to unsuitable conditions for prisoners and prison workers. Stakeholders are negatively impacted from the
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Educate a Convict‚ Close a Prison Door /They’re trying to build another prison/ For you and me to live in/ Another prison system/ for you and me/ Minor drug offenders fill your prisons you don’t even flinch/ All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich/ All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased/ And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences/ In 2001‚ Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian‚ members of the band System of a Down
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is not responsible for his actions? There is a point of view that drug addicts should “learn their lesson” like other criminals. That could potentially prevent them from committing other crimes. However‚ this might not‚ in fact‚ be the case‚ as‚ according to Langan and Levin (1994)‚ 25 per cent of drug offenders released from prison were back in prison within three years of their release. That indicates that some proportion of drug offenders do not “learn their lesson”. On the other hand‚ same could
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The Civil Rights Movement‚ the Women’s Movement‚ the anti-War Movement during the Vietnam era‚ and the increasing presence of a widespread‚ politically active and highly vocalized youth counterculture led the United States government to feel that maybe‚ they were losing control of their population. The white‚ upper class men‚ who for centuries had dominated the political realm‚ began to feel their grip on power falter. By targeting drug use‚ the government would be free to "deal" with minorities
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no one and it would be beneficial to remove them from the prison system‚ and into the parole system (D’Elia‚ 2010). Prison Cost Prisons are expensive to keep open‚ and most of the money to keep them open comes from the taxpayers. A study in 2012 showed that prisons cost American taxpayers approximately 5.4 billion dollars each year (Henrichson & Delaney‚ 2012). These cost include various expenses that include maintaining the prisons‚ employees salaries‚ educational training‚ providing benefits
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I had a since of the direction it was taking me. However‚ I was never really familiar with the term “School to Prison Pipeline” For most of the youth the pipeline begins with poor resources in the school system. Which could include overcrowding classroom‚ under qualified teachers and low funding for counselors and special educators. ( (https://www.aclu.org/fact-sheet/what-school-prison-pipeline) I think the standard testing contributed to the dropout rate among our youth. Example if a child has already
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INTRODUCTION Overcrowding is when there are too many people (or cars) in a specific area so that the environment or services cannot cope. Bad town planning can cause overcrowding. Like having too many traffic lights in a certain area that slow down the flow of traffic and increase the congestion in an area. Narrow pavements also bottleneck many people into a smaller area and this can cause health and safety issues as people could be pushed into the roads if there are too many people for the pavement
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Urban overcrowding is not a fresh happening‚ but it has recently become an international demographic trouble. The growth of the world’s ’Megacities’ such as Tokyo‚ Jakarta‚ Sao Paulo and Cairo‚ with populations approaching 20 million‚ is one of the most marked trends of recent decades. In 1950 for instance‚ New York City was only one of its kind among the world’s cities in having more than 10 million inhabitants. By 1975 that number had grown to 15 million
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The existence of Prisons can be traced back to the ancient period. Initially there was a belief that rigorous isolation and custodial measures would reform the offenders. In due course it is being substituted by the modern concept of social defense. Custody‚ care and treatment are the‚ three main functions of a modern prison organization. For over 100 years‚ there was emphasis on custody which‚ it was believed‚ depended on good order and discipline. The notion of prison discipline was to make
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