Drugs and Crime

PART ONE: BACKGROUND ISSUES Drug Control and System Improvement - Doris Layton MacKenzie Evaluating the Success of Public Policies Doing Evaluations in Policy Research - Albert J Reiss Jr Implications for Drug Control Initiatives Prevalence of Drug Use Among Criminal Offender Populations - Yih-Ing Hser, Douglas Longshore and M Douglas Anglin Implications for Control, Treatment and Policy Gangs and Crack Cocaine Trafficking - Malcolm W Klein and Cheryl Lee Maxson PART TWO: POLICE INITIATIVES Defining the Street Level Drug Market - David Weisburd and Lorraine Green The Jersey City DMAP System Controlling Street-Level Drug Trafficking - Craig D Uchida and Brian Forst Professional and Community Policing Approaches Police Crackdowns on Drug Abuse and Trafficking - Robert E Worden, Timothy S Bynum and James Frank Assessing the Community Effects of Tactical Narcotics Teams - Michele Sviridoff and Sally T Hillsman Drugs and Public Housing - Wesley G Skogan and Sampson O Annan Toward an Effective Police Response PART THREE: JUDICIAL, CORRECTIONAL AND TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES Prosecuting Drug Offenders - Joan E Jacoby and Heike P Gramckow Classifying Drug Offenders for Treatment - John R Hepburn Do Criminal Sanctions Deter Drug Crimes? - Jeffery A Fagan Shock Incarceration as an Alternative for Drug Offenders - Doris Layton MacKenzie The Implementation and Effectiveness of Drug Testing in Community Supervision - Susan Turner, Joan Petersilia and Elizabeth Piper Deschenes Results of an Experimental Evaluation Treating the Juvenile Drug Offender - Elizabeth Piper Deschenes and Peter W Greenwood EPILOGUE Drug Policy Initiatives - Doris Layton MacKenzie The Next 25 Years