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NCJ Number: 184236 Find in a Library
Title: Rhetorical Critique of the Drug War, Slavery, and the "Nauseous Pendulum" of Reason and Violence
Journal: Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice  Volume:16  Issue:3  Dated:August 2000  Pages:247-271
Author(s): Stephen J. Hartnett
Date Published: August 2000
Annotation: This analysis of the rhetoric used in the National Drug Control Strategy reports concludes that the drug war is something akin to a politically expedient and gentlemanly truncheon rather than a necessary and pragmatic response to a social crisis or an attempt to defend and even enhance democracy.
Abstract: The reports outline President Clinton’s strategies for winning what is called the war on drugs. Analyzing the arguments used in the reports aids understanding of the government’s understanding of the relationships among drugs, violence, race, crime, and democracy. Situating the critique of the drug war in a historically based analysis of the relationships among law, power, and force suggests the usefulness of examining Thucydides’ Peloponnesian Wars and Aristotle’s Nicohmachean Ethics. These writers emphasize the concept of a nauseous pendulum that swings between reason and violence. Considering the drug war in relationship to Thucydides and Aristotle bolsters the thesis that the contemporary means of producing power via reasonable political discourse that serves as the veneer on government-sanctioned violence is not a necessarily abhorrent form of hypocrisy; instead, it is one of the basic traditions of law itself. 60 references (Author abstract modified)
Main Term(s): Drug Policy
Index Term(s): Crime control policies; Drug law enforcement; Drug laws; Drug regulation; Drug Related Crime; Federal government; Political influences; Public Opinion of Drug Abuse; Racial discrimination; Violence
Page Count: 25
Format: Article
Type: Legislation/Policy Analysis
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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