Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State

by Richard Lawrence Miller

Book Overview

The war on drugs is a war on ordinary people. Using that premise, historian Richard Lawrence Miller analyzes America's drug war with passion seldom encountered in scholarly writing. Miller presents numerous examples of drug law enforcement gone amok, as police and courts threaten the happiness, property, and even lives of victims--some of whom are never charged with a drug crime, let alone convicted of one. Miller not only argues that criminal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275950425
• ISBN13: 9780275950422
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"