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Drugs, Thugs & PhD's

Author : Harold "The Docktor" Martin

Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.

Page : 99 pages

File Size : 34,90 MB

Release : 2021-10-15

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1633389790

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I made my first voyage into the world of nuclear science at about the age of three. I had more books in my room than toys. I had Grimms' Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. My first out-of-body experience I can recall was when I overdosed on heroin at the age of sixteen. I saw my body lying on the sofa in my grandmother's parlor as I hovered by the ceiling. I finally harnessed enough energy to reinhabit my body. Enjoy this journey. I am Harold "the Docktor." Swim at your own risk!



Drugs, Thugs and PhD's

Author : Harold "The Docktor" Martin

Publisher :

Page : 102 pages

File Size : 23,78 MB

Release : 2021-05-17

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781633389786

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I made my first voyage into the world of nuclear science at about the age of three. I had more books in my room than toys. I had Grimms' Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. My first out-of-body experience I can recall was when I overdosed on heroin at the age of sixteen. I saw my body lying on the sofa in my grandmother's parlor as I hovered by the ceiling. I finally harnessed enough energy to reinhabit my body. Enjoy this journey. I am Harold "the Docktor." Swim at your own risk!



Drugs and Thugs

Author : Russell Crandall

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 521 pages

File Size : 10,67 MB

Release : 2020-10-27

Category : Law

ISBN : 0300240341

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A sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America's domestic and global drug war How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs? In Drugs and Thugs, Russell Crandall uncovers the full history of this war that has lasted more than a century. As a scholar and a high-level national security advisor to both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, he provides an essential view of the economic, political, and human impacts of U.S. drug policies. Backed by extensive research, lucid and unbiased analysis of policy, and his own personal experiences, Crandall takes readers from Afghanistan to Colombia, to Peru and Mexico, to Miami International Airport and the border crossing between El Paso and Juarez to trace the complex social networks that make up the drug trade and drug consumption. Through historically driven stories, Crandall reveals how the war on drugs has evolved to address mass incarceration, the opioid epidemic, the legalization and medical use of marijuana, and America's shifting foreign policy.



Thugs and Thieves

Author : Joanne Savage

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 393 pages

File Size : 48,62 MB

Release : 2016

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0195393589

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Thugs and Thieves argues that understanding the differential etiology of violence constitutes a fundamental chasm in the empirical literature. The authors address the important, unanswered question of why some individuals commit violent offenses while others restrict themselves to nonviolent ones.



Thug Criminology

Author : Adam Ellis

Publisher : University of Toronto Press

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 38,15 MB

Release : 2023-06-26

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1487549210

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Thug Criminology combines the urgent and as yet silenced voices of former gang/street-involved peoples turned academics, alongside their allies, in order to challenge and disrupt mainstream and academic knowledge about urban youth gangs specifically, and the "streets" more broadly. The book questions how the "streets" – and the racialized and marginalized urban communities who inhabit them – are researched, taught, and subsequently politicized. It looks at who gets to produce such knowledge, who benefits from such knowledge, and whose voices are privileged within dominant academic and public policy discourses. Drawing on decolonizing methodologies, the book seeks to give voice to scholars with lived experience of a "street" or gang life. Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter reclaim the terms thug and gang to reconstruct the narrative around street-involved youth, seeing them not as criminals but rather as survivors of historical oppression and trauma. Challenging the colonial structure of criminology and other disciplines that focus on street crime, Thug Criminology aims to disrupt and disentangle the knowledge that has been produced on gangs and urban violence.



Reluctant Gangsters

Author : John Pitts

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 188 pages

File Size : 43,63 MB

Release : 2013-01-11

Category : Law

ISBN : 1134022190

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This book provides an account of the emergence, nature and impact of armed youth gangs in an East London Borough over the last decade. It describes the challenges these armed young men and women pose to their communities, those charged with preventing crime and those struggling to vouchsafe 'community safety'. While the focus of the book is 'local', the processes it outlines and the effects it chronicles have both a national and international relevance. It argues that the main reason behind the emergence of the armed youth gang has been the coalesence of two previously discreet socially deviant groups; the rowdy, episodically criminal, adolescent peer group on the one hand and the locally-based organized criminal network on the other. The book analyses the impact of the globalisation of the drugs trade and the consequent shift in the focus of local organized crime from the 'blag' to the 'business'. It also discusses how socio-economic and cultural factors, as well as family and neighbourhood histories and loyalties and localized racial antagonisms all play their part in the emergence of the armed youth gang.



Transnational Media

Author : Suman Mishra

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 36,17 MB

Release : 2019-03-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1119394570

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A broad and accessible introduction to national and transnational media Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journalism and entertainment media—introducing readers to the essential concepts, systems, transnational influences, and power dynamics that shape global media flow. Broad coverage of different media forms from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania offers country-based and transnational perspectives while highlighting examples of media trends in television, radio, film, journalism, social media, music, and others. Promoting a balanced, multipolar exploration of transnational media, this innovative book discusses topics such as media concentration, the cultural, political, and economic impact of media, and the primary centers of new and traditional media activities. Chapters organized by geographic region offer instructive pedagogical features—including case studies and essays, and illustrations, maps and charts—that strengthen understanding of distinctive and emerging practices in the production, distribution, and consumption of media products. Explores a wide range of global media topics, infrastructures, cultures, and political-economic climates Written in an engaging, relatable, and easy to understand style Covers major aspects of journalism and various forms of entertainment media Organized by regions of the world to reflect a global perspective Includes newly-written case studies by international scholars from each region Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative media analysis, international media and communication, and related areas of study, Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases is an indispensable resource for colleges and universities that are internationalizing their curriculum to meet the needs of an increasing globalized world.



Gangsters and Other Statesmen

Author : Danilo Mandić

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 15,52 MB

Release : 2020-12

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0691187878

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How global organized crime shapes the politics of borders in modern conflicts Separatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political strife, ethnic conflict, and civil war, and redrawing the political map. Gangsters and Other Statesmen examines the role transnational mafias play in the success and failure of separatist movements, challenging conventional wisdom about the interrelation of organized crime with peacebuilding, nationalism, and state making. Danilo Mandić conducted fieldwork in the disputed territories of Kosovo and South Ossetia, talking to mobsters, separatists, and policymakers in war zones and along major smuggling routes. In this timely and provocative book, he demonstrates how globalized mafias shape the politics of borders in torn states, shedding critical light on an autonomous nonstate actor that has been largely sidelined by considerations of geopolitics, state-centered agency, and ethnonationalism. Blending extensive archival sleuthing and original ethnographic data with insights from sociology and other disciplines, Mandić argues that organized crime can be a fateful determinant of state capacity, separatist success, and ethnic conflict. Putting mafias at the center of global processes of separatism and territorial consolidation, Gangsters and Other Statesmen raises vital questions and urges reconsideration of a host of separatist cases in West Africa, the Middle East, and East Europe.



Po H# on Dope to PhD

Author : Elaine Richardson

Publisher : Parlor Press LLC

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 10,1 MB

Release : 2013-03-30

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 160235426X

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"There was a time when Elaine Richardson was one of 'the Negroes everybody pointed to as the Negroes you didn't want to become.' The title of this book is no metaphor or allusion, but a literal shorthand for a remarkable, unpredictable journey. She inherits a plain way of talking about horrific pain from a mother who seemed impossible to shock. The way too fast way she grew up was and is too common, but her will to remap her destiny is uncommon indeed. To call her story inspiring would be itself too plain a thing, hers is a heroic life." -dream Hampton, writer and filmmaker



Traffickers

Author : Nicholas Dorn

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 37,22 MB

Release : 2002-09-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1134960514

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Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement. The chamelion reality of the world of drug trafficking is described in the words of traffickers and detectives. Drug enforcement combines the banal and spectacular in surveillance, covert operations and criminal intelligence. The war on drugs is a harbinger of wider changes in the organisation of policing and international cooperation. Traffickers explores the struggle that transforms policing and punishment as it stimulates the imagination.