Draft One -- References and Table

References


Jefferson M. Fish, editor, How to Legalize Drugs. Jason Aronson Inc., 1998.

Jefferson M. Fish, editor, Drugs and Society. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Raymond B. Fosdick and Albert L. Scott, Toward Liquor Control. Harper Brothers, 1933.

Richard M. Evans, “What is ‘Legalization’? What are ‘Drugs’?” Chapter 14, pages 369-387, in Fish (1998).

Joseph L. Galiber, “A Bill to Repeal Criminal Drug Laws: Replacing Prohibition with Regulation.” Hofstra Law Review 18(3): 831-880, Spring 1990.

Glenn Greenwald, Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies. White Paper, Cato Institute, April, 2009; available at http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080.

Jeffrey A. Miron and Katherine Waldock, The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition. Cato Institute, 2010; available at http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/DrugProhibitionWP.pdf.

Transform Drug Policy Foundation, After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation, 2009; available at http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Transform_Drugs_Blueprint.pdf.

Frederick Howard Wines, John Koren, and the Committee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Liquor Problem. The Liquor Problem in its Legislative Aspects. Houghton, Mifflin, 1897.



Table 1: Estimated totals of top 7 arrest offenses, plus gambling and prostitution arrests, United States, 2009

Type of arrest Number of arrests

Total arrests 13,687,241
Drug abuse violations 1,663,582
Driving under the influence 1,440,409
Larceny/theft 1,334,933
Simple assaults 1,319,458
Disorderly conduct 655,322
Drunkenness 594,300
Liquor laws 570,333
Prostitution and commercialized vice 71,355
Gambling 10,360

Many disorderly conduct arrests are alcohol-related; assaults are another common arrest category that involve a substantial alcohol-related segment.

Source: FBI, Uniform Crime Reports, Crime in the United States 2009, Table 29, available at http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_29.html.