The War On Drug: Reasons Behind The Criminalisation of Drugs and Functions of Crime In Society

Drug War: The reason behind the crime of narcotics and the function of social crime The history of drug war in the United States is the cornerstone of criminalization of American drugs, the "Harrison Act" in 1914, the first prohibition of domestic drug distribution You can go back to the law of. McNamara, 2011). However, when President Richard Nixon created the term "drug war" in 1971, the spread of drug crime spread (Provine, 2011, p.45). This article focuses on the disproportionate rates of incarceration between African Americans and Anglo Americans and explains the uneven function of law enforcement against African Americans (Provine, 2011).

Drug War: "President Reagan officially announced that narcotics crime declined but did not rise in 1982. From the beginning, war has little to do with drug drug crime and almost racial politics There was a political protest encoded racially about crime and welfare issues in order to attract apartheid, bus, and certainly dissatisfied and intimidated poor and white class voters of the working class A part of the great successful Republican strategy to use In his words of HR Haldeman, director of the White House office of Richard Nixon, his question is actually black.

"Drug War" was a long-standing policy that plagued millions of people. In June 1971, President Richard Nixon started a "drug war". Of course, from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the drug control laws such as opium and cocaine and the regulated substance law (CSA) regulating various aspects were enacted, but because Nixon announced drug war, federal drug control Institution existed. And in 1972 the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was established and the scale expanded dramatically. Nixon used cannabis as a Schedule I drug, but this is the most restrictive category in the meantime. What he advertised is like there is no knock card or mandatory sentences. Ronald Reagan expanded the drug war in the president with the help of his wife Nancy Reagan and her "Just Say No" campaign. The number of illegal violent narcotics law crimes increased from 50,000 in 1980 to 400,000 in 1997.

Perhaps the biggest force behind the increase in the prison population is the nation's "drug war". During President Ronald Reagan's term, the drug war has expanded. President Reagan enacted the 1986 drug abuse prevention law. According to Human Rights Watch, such laws greatly increased the crime of drug regulation, "strengthened racial discrimination among arrestors." Since 1980, the number of imprisoned drug offenses has increased by a factor of 12. In 2000, 22% of federal and state prisons were found guilty of drug offenses