Operation Intercept

Operation Intercept: The Multiple Consequences of Public Policy analyzes the taken-for-granted reality of the search-and-destroy anti-marihuana legislation. This book focuses on the Operation Intercept, a policy that aims to control the importation of illegal drugs, marihuana in particular, across the United States-Mexican border.
Chapter 1 discusses the objectives of Operation Intercept and the factors and assumptions underlying this policy. Chapter 2 examines the availability of marihuana during the Operation Intercept period and the unanticipated consequences of such policy decision. Chapter 3 presents data that confirms marihuana shortage in New York City during the summer and early fall of 1969. Lastly, Chapter 4 provides an appraisal of anti-drug policies in the past and an examination of the general drug abuse problem in the United States.
Sociologists who are interested in deviant behavior and social problems will find this book invaluable.

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Preface
Notes
Acknowledgments

1. Operation Intercept: The Policy and the Research Problem
   Factors and Assumptions Underlying the New Public Policy
   Operation Intercept: Immediate, Intermediate, and Ultimate Goals
   Purpose of the Study, Applied Theoretical Perspectives, and Hypotheses
   Formulation of the Research Problem and Methodology
   Notes
2. The Multiple Consequences of Operation Intercept
   The Availability of Marijuana During the Operation Intercept Era
   Summary
   Behavioral Reactions to the General Marijuana Shortage
   Abstaining and Decreased Drug Use
   Switching: The Availability and Use of Drugs Other than Marijuana
   Summary
   Attitudinal Responses to the Government Policy
   Summary
   Trusting Attitudes
   Distrustful Attitudes
   Notes
3. Analysis of the Findings: Public Policy and the Drug Abuse Problem
   The Findings
   Additional Evidence Concerning the Unanticipated Consequences of Operation Intercept
   The Social Context of Operation Intercept: An Examination of Contingent Conditions
   Traditional Controls in a Decade of Change
   The Ineffectiveness of Traditional Controls and the Formation of the Operation Intercept Policy
   An Analysis of the Differential Effects of Operation Intercept
   Notes
4. Operation Intercept: Past, Present, and Future
   Notes
   Appendix I. Members of the Narcotics, Marijuana and Dangerous Drugs Task Force
   II. The Interview Guide
   III. Findings from Gross Point Study: Interview Excerpts
   Index