Negative Space: crime
- The Day After
- A short excerpt from “Thinking About Drug Legalization” in the book “Crisis in Drug Prohibition”.
- If you support keeping drugs illegal…
- If you support prohibition, you support robbery, assault, higher taxes, and rape.
- The International Pathology of the War on Drugs: Corruption, Instability, and Narco-Terrorism
- It is hard to imagine a system more suited for funding terrorism and crime than the drug war.
- Nancy Reagan and the Real Villains in the Drug War
- Stephen Chapman notes the hypocrisy of making drugs illegal, fostering a violent black market, and then putting the blame elsewhere.
- The Pathology of the War on Drugs: Corruption and Violence in the Black Market
- Prohibition isn’t just lucrative for organized crime, but also for law enforcement. Whereever prohibition is stepped up, corruption among law enforcement and the criminal justice system increases.
- Prohibition in Action
- As long as people want to drink, prohibition is unenforceable. And criminals who accumulated money and power from their prohibition earnings were left alone by law enforcement in favor of small-time criminals with less ability to bribe and coerce. They even a form of three-strikes laws that gave life imprisonment for a pint’s worth of alcohol.
More Information
- Criminal Negligence
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“Since 1960 crime has risen, fallen, and risen again… The changes were especially pronounced in New York, America’s most populous city and, as the nation’s media center, most prominent.”
- Texas Public Policy Foundation
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“The Foundation's mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.”
- Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? (PDF)
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International evidence and comparisons have long been offered as proof that more guns mean more deaths and that fewer guns, therefore, mean fewer deaths. Unfortunately, such discussions are all too often been afflicted by misconceptions and factual error and focus on comparisons that are unrepresentative. (Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser)
- Guns and Violent Crime
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Joyce Lee Malcolm and Don B. Kates talk about the history of legal scholarship on the second amendment, and then go into questions. Very interesting talk, from 1999.
