After Drugs and the “War on Drugs” : Reclaiming the Power to Make History in Harlem, New York

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
War On Drugs

New York’s War on Drugs and the Impact on Female Incarceration Rates

2020 ◽  
pp. 155708512095184
Author(s):  
Colleen D. Mair
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Drug Laws ◽  
Drug Legislation ◽  
Incarceration Rate ◽  
Rockefeller Drug Laws ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
The Impact

Prior literature suggests that drug legislation in the late 1970s and 1980s caused the rapid increase in the female incarceration rate. Empirical investigations focused on the female incarceration rate specifically may provide important information to further our understanding of the factors that contributed to this increase. The purpose of this study is to determine how much of the change in the female incarceration rate in New York can be attributed to the introduction of the 1973 Rockefeller Drug Laws. These laws were introduced prior to most war on drugs legislation and, therefore, serve as a unique case study for this type of investigation.

Drugs and Justice: The Impact of Drugs on Criminal Justice in a Metropolitan Community

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Klofas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Local Level ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Case Processing ◽  
York Metropolitan Area ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This study examines the impact of drugs on the criminal justice system of the greater Rochester (New York) metropolitan area. Although discussed widely, there has been little investigation of the effects of the “war on drugs” at the local level. This research considers patterns of arrest and case processing and includes an examination of drug treatment. Increases in arrests, particularly for possession of drugs, have occurred in the city but not the suburbs and have had a disproportionate effect on African-Americans. Many cases are processed as misdemeanors and result in minor sanctions. The implications for traditional order maintenance concerns in a metropolitan community are discussed.

scholarly journals Review of Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age by Brian Jefferson (University of Minnesota Press)

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Kārkliņa
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Drugs And Crime

In Digitize and Punish, Brian Jefferson argues that the US policing and incarceration infrastructure is increasingly marked by new forms of racialized digital criminalization. Examining the incorporation of digital technologies into the criminal justice apparatus, Jefferson shows the central role that digital technology and data science has had in reinforcing racial surveillance practices since the War on Drugs and Crime began more than four decades ago. Jefferson’s timely new book traces the merging of carcerality and technology in Chicago and New York City, unveiling forms of digital racial management that have remained largely obscured from the public.

“It all started with Eddie”: Thanatopolitics, police power, and the murder of Edward Byrne

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Turner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
York City ◽  
Visual Rhetoric ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Sovereign Authority ◽  
City Police

On February 26, 1988, rookie New York City police officer Edward Byrne was shot dead while guarding a material witness in a drug trafficking case in South Jamaica, Queens. This article considers how state narratives and visual rhetoric emerging from Byrne’s murder emboldened the police power and a revanchist campaign aimed at “taking back the streets” secreted under the war on drugs. As such, this case powerfully illustrates a disparate politics of death and the ways that the state enlists thanatopolitical power in order to reaffirm and reproduce its sovereign authority. Such a reproduction or reanimation of power registers as the state’s ability to unleash violence unequivocally and unequally upon poor and marginalized communities, as later demonstrated by the legal and proper police murder of Sean Bell, a resident of South Jamaica, Queens killed by NYPD agents in 2006.

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