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Harry G. Levine Professor Department of Sociology Queens College, City University of New York Flushing, New York 113 718- 997-2800 / Email: Harry.Levine@QC.cuny.edu
Harry G. Levine is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from Brandeis University.
His
research and writings have focused on drugs, alcohol, and food in historical
context. His work has received seven distinguished scholarship awards
for historical and sociological research about addiction, alcohol prohibition
and regulation, international drug policy, crack cocaine, the war on drugs,
and racial bias in marijuana arrests.
His current research examines the scandalous epidemic of arrests and summonses for marijuana possession and other minor offenses in New York City and throughout the U.S. disproportionately of young blacks and Latinos who use marijuana at lower rates than young whites. In partnership with the ACLU, NAACP, Drug Policy Alliance, and Latino civil rights groups, he has issued reports, articles, and testimony on the costs, damaging consequences, and racial disparities of arrests for possession of even tiny amounts of marijuana.
His
research has shown that the large numbers of marijuana possession arrests are
the direct result of the many stops, frisks and searches conducted by the New
York Police Department and other big city police departments. His work
has been cited in editorials and news stories in the New York Times, Los
Angeles Times, National Public Radio, WNYC, Associated
Press, New York Magazine, New York Daily News, and other prominent
publications. It has served as a model such research in the U.S. and
internationally and contributed to the ongoing reform of marijuana policy,
policing and law in New York and elsewhere.
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PUBLICATIONS, TESTIMONY, AND
REPORTS ABOUT RACE, MARIJUANA ARRESTS AND POLICING Unjust and Unconstitutional: 60,000 Jim Crow
Marijuana Arrests in Mayor de Blasio's New York July 2017 Truth, Race, Hidden Data, and Routine Policing in
New York City March 2017 Race, Class
and Marijuana Arrests in Mayor de Blasio's Two New Yorks
- Nov 2014 Examining the Operations of New York Citys Summons
Courts: The Scandal of
Racist Marijuana Arrests - The Nation - Nov 2013 National Disgrace: The Racist Marijuana Arrests, April 2013 One Million Police Hours: Making 440,000 Marijuana
Arrests in New York City, 2002-2012, March 2013 Bloomberg's Marijuana Arrest Crusade is ... Softened? Feb 2013 Police Stops, Illegal Searches, And Marijuana Possession
Arrests, 210,000 Marijuana Arrests in Colorado - Oct 2012 240,000 Marijuana Arrests in Washington - Oct 2012 Testimony to the New York State Senate Regarding
Marijuana Arrests June 2011 $75 Million A Year: The Cost of New York City's Marijuana
Possession Arrests - March 2011 Arresting Blacks for Marijuana in California, 2007-2009 - Oct 2010 Arresting Latinos for Marijuana in California, 2007-2009
- Oct 2010
The
Epidemic of Pot Arrests in New York City Aug 09 / Alternet Marijuana Arrest Crusade: Racial Bias and Police
Policy in New York City, 1997-2007 May 2008 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Full Text of Selected Publications (most are a pdf which can take a moment to load) Marijuana Madness: New York City's Racist Marijuana
Arrests 46 page state-of-the-art chapter in a book
about the NYPD / Jan 2015 Pastrami Land: The Jewish Deli in New York City Contexts Magazine / July 07 Troy Duster: A Biography in History American Sociological Association / Footnotes (Oct 2004) Regard Yourself As a Writer: Unconventional Advice For New Sociology Graduate Students (Still circulating, comments welcomed) The New Dual-Track Drug Policy Paradigm, Nordic Studies On Alcohol And Drugs, 2007 Safe Treyf: New York Jews and Chinese Food From: The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods (1997) The Vocabulary of Drunkenness Journal of Studies on Alcohol, (all the words for drunkenness in English, 1981) Temperance Cultures: Concern About Alcohol Problems in Nordic and English-Speaking Cultures (1992) The Secret of World-Wide Drug Prohibition: The Uses and Varieties of Drug Prohibition The Independent Review, Fall 2002 Global Drug Prohibition: Its Uses and Crises (Revised version of the above with new material for a European audience, The International Journal of Drug Policy, Spring 2003 Drug Arrests and DNA: Building Jim Crow's Database 2000 word "abstract" in GeneWatch - Dec 08 Drug Arrests and DNA: Building Jim Crow's Database full paper with graphs and notes Jan 09 Crack In The Rearview Mirror: Deconstructing Drug War Ideology Social Justice, 2004 Crack In America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice University of California Press, 1997 Crack in Context: America's Latest Demon Drug Chapter 1 of Crack in America Global Drug Policy: A Retreat from War Contexts (new ASA magazine) Fall 2002 Blame Canada: The Specter of Marijuana Decriminalization in Canada Pacific News Service, July 2002 Drug Commissions, The Next Generation: To Boldly Go...... International Journal of Drug Policy (1994) Alcohol Prohibition and Drug Prohibition: Lessons from Alcohol Prohibition for Drug Prohibition (Nov 2004) The Birth Of American Alcohol Control: Prohibition, the Power Elite, and the Problem of Lawlessness Contemporary Drug Problems, 1985 The Discovery of Addiction: Changing Conceptions of Habitual Drunkenness in America From: Journal of Studies on Alcohol (a golden oldie from 1978)
From Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist Bill
Mauldin
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