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Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America
William Garriott
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Description for Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America
Paperback. Addresses the impact of methamphetamine and, more generally, the war on drugs, on everyday life in the United States Num Pages: 201 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; JFFH; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 290.
In its steady march across the United States, methamphetamine has become, to quote 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 ... Read moreon 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.
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About William Garriott
Will Garriott is Associate Professor in the Law, Politics, and Society Program at Drake University. He is author or editor of numerous works, including Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America (NYU Press, 2011); Addiction Trajectories (Duke University Press, 2013); and The Anthropology of Police (Routledge, 2018).
Reviews for Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America
I commend Garriott for developing a theory of 'narcopolitics' that can be used in many other cultural settings to deconstruct the corrosive power of moral and 'actuarial' drug policies.
Howard Campbell
American Anthropologist
Readers will gain insight into the significance of narcopolitics and its influence on the administration of justice in the United States.
Rashi K. ... Read moreShukla
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Review
This book is an important contribution to the anthropology of drug use...it conveys a real sense of the bleakness and intractability of the problem, as well as the ultimate failure of policy and practice to meet this challenge.
Gilbert Quintero
Anthropological Quarterly
In this brilliant ethnography, Garriott reveals that as the war on drugs extends from the inner city to rural Appalachia, suspicion and mistrust come to dominate small-town interactions. People one knows and everyday objects are quietly transformed into sources of danger and illegality by the state's desire to root out methamphetamine. A major contribution to law and society studies as well as to rural anthropology.
Mariana Valverde,author of Law and Order: Images, Meanings, Myths Reveals how addiction is remaking rural America despite four decades of a & war on drugs. Garriott explores the day-to-day costs of policing drugs in a society increasingly organized around the illicit and the high. Compassionate and relentless, he demonstrates the brutal reality of narcopolitics in the United States. Essential reading.
Joseph Masco,The University of Chicago This ethnography of methamphetamine is unusually gripping. The author’s subtle and insightful analytic voice draws on the words, experiences, and emotions of residents of Baker County to detail the pathological embraces of & narcopolitics, the erosive relationships of narcotics-based governance through policing. As a study of how lives, laws, and morality interlock, this book provides a true-to-life mirror on the workings of the criminal justice system and its roles in American society and culture.
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