SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY

Social Welfare Policy Analysis on Incarceration and Drugs

Social Welfare Policy Analysis on Incarceration and Drugs

Introduction

The New Jim Crow is a book of 2010 and a name given to a class of race-related social and political phenomena in the U.S. by Michelle Alexander, a litigator for civil rights and jurist. Alexander trafficking in the first book to question the current level of mass incarceration and other means of repression of the Society of African-American men, and the social consequences of the policies described for the "people of color "and the country as a whole. According to the author, what has changed since the collapse if Jim Crow is not the basic structure of society, the language used to justify his business sense. People of color are classified as "criminals", which enable the activation of a range of measures of legal discrimination.

The population of the United States Criminal increased each year for the last thirty-six years. The rate of imprisonment in the United States is now four times its historical average and seven times higher than in Western Europe. Even more striking than the overall level of incarceration is the concentrated force of the penal system on the poorest segments of the population. One third of African-American male dropouts aged fewer than 40 are currently behind bars. Of all the African-American men born since the mid-1960s, over 20 percent will go to prison, nearly twice the number who will be graduating college. This extraordinary model of penal detention has been called "mass incarceration," incarceration rates so high that it affects not only the offender but also all social groups.

Incarceration in the United States has concurrent jurisdiction under the Constitution of the United States, which means that prisons are operated under the strict federal and state governments. Incarceration is a major form of punishment for the commission of felonies in the United States.

Drug Policy

A drug policy most often refers to a government trying to address the negative impact of drug addiction in his company. Governments try, drug addiction, that policy address both the demand and supply of drugs, and measures to combat the harm that can reduce drug abuse. Demand reduction measures include prohibitions, penalties for drug offenses, imprisonment of people for drug offenses, treatment (such as voluntary or coercive rehabilitation care for drug addicts), awareness campaigns, community social services and support for families condemned. Supply-side measures to reduce the operative investigation include foreign policy to eradicate international cultivation of plants used for drugs and monitoring is to make the drug trade. Strategies that contribute to the effects of drug abuse can needle exchange programs, substitution treatment, and free facilities for testing drug purity. (Jones, 1999)

Drug policy: Foreign and National Experiences

 The abuse of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (hereinafter - the drugs) and drug abuse is a priority in virtually all countries of the world. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for 2008, the world has 200 million people with experience of drug use, drug abuse 110 million ...