From Esquire, a radical solution to end the drug war: Legalize everything. How did New York City become the pot-arrest capital of the country? Get stoked: the MSM are acting less childish about pot. A review of The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World by Tom Feiling. From the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, Jennifer Cobbina (UMSL): Race and Class Differences in Print Media Portrayals of Crack Cocaine and Methamphetamine; a review of Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics by Matthew Robinson and Renee Scherlen; and an article on The Absence of Gay and Lesbian Police Officer Depictions in the First Three Decades of the Core Cop Film Genre. The first chapter from Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District by Peter Moskos. Michael Bond on why cops should trust the wisdom of the crowds. The first chapter from When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment by Mark A. R. Kleiman (and a review). Steve Salerno on the flaws and fallacies of the American justice system. Eyewitness testimony is both fallible and irreplaceable — how can we know when to trust it? From Monthly Review, a look at how the role of penal state spending is crucial to understanding the developing crisis of U.S. class society. One in 35 Americans are caught up in the corrections system and incarceration is on the rise — why is this when the crime rate has dropped so remarkably? An interview with Diego Gambetta, author of Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate. Why would criminals withhold details of their crimes, and can they be made to reveal all?
