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These are the lecture slides of Sociology of Criminal Law. Key important points are: Law Making, Twentieth Century, Dope Fiends Paradise, Soothing Syrup, San Francisco, Criminalization, Beginning of Drug, Banning Opium, Opium Dens, Source of Opium
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Nineteenth Century: A “Dope Fiends Paradise”
Drugs were widely available through concoctions such as “Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup”, “Godfrey’s Cordial” and “McMunn’s Elixir of Opium” among others Typical users of narcotics drugs were white, middle class, middle aged women.
San Francisco: The Beginning of Drug Criminalization
The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914
Controlled Substances Act of 1970
determine penalties based on abuse potential and risk associated with a drug
versus users
phenomenon
consensus of values or opinion; rather they are the result of careful political manipulation on the part of powerful stakeholders
exclusively) against the powerless, especially ethnic minorities and the lower class.