John C. McWilliams

The Origins and Development of Federal Crime Control Policy: Herbert Hoover's Initiatives.

Hoovers Mark on Federal Justice Policy From Campaign to Crash: The Honeymoon Intellectual Resources for New Policy Initiatives Scientific Investigation: The Wickersham Commission Reforming Federal Cops and Courts Al Capone and the Campaign Against Organized Crime Federal Prison Reforms Marginal Concerns: Lynching, Massie, Pardons, Lindbergh, and Bonus Army March 4, 1933: Report Card on Crime and Justice Reforms Bibliography Index

Through the Past Darkly: The Politics and Policies of America's Drug War

Drug wars. Few topics generate more ccontroversy or provoke more debate. Few topics conjure up more futile and dismal images among the American population. Few topics are more synonymous with defeat. Never has our government been mired in a conflict so enduring or fought against an enemy so utterly impossible to conquer. For seventy-five years—nearly four times longer than both World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam combined—the federal government has been waging an endless war against seemingly impossible odds.

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