Title
Policing Methamphetamine : Narcopolitics in Rural America / William Garriott.
ISBN
9780814733004
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814733004.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.299
Summary
In its steady march across the United States, methamphetamine has become, to "e former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, "the most dangerous drug in America." As a result, there has been a concerted effort at the local level to root out the methamphetamine problem by identifying the people at its source-those known or suspected to be involved with methamphetamine. Government-sponsored anti-methamphetamine legislation has enhanced these local efforts, formally and informally encouraging rural residents to identify meth offenders in their communities. Policing Methamphetamine shows what happens in everyday life-and to everyday life-when methamphetamine becomes an object of collective concern. Drawing on interviews with users, police officers, judges, and parents and friends of addicts in one West Virginia town, William Garriott finds that this overriding effort to confront the problem changed the character of the community as well as the role of law in creating and maintaining social order. Ultimately, this work addresses the impact of methamphetamine and, more generally, the war on drugs, on everyday life in the United States.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Available in Other Form
print 9780814732397
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "The Most Dangerous Drug in America"
2. "It Could Be Here . . . It Could Be My Neighbor"
3. "You Can Always Tell Who's Using Meth"
4. "The People You'd Never Suspect"
5. "Against the Peace and Dignity of the State"
6. "What Do You Do with Them?"
Epilogue: "A Lot Happens in a Little Town"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
