Harry G. Levine
Professor
Department of Sociology
718- 997-2800 /
Email: hglevine@QC.edu
Harry G. Levine received his PhD in Sociology from the
Much of his research and writing
has focused on drugs, alcohol and food in historical context. He has won awards
for his writing about the history of addiction, about alcohol prohibition and
regulation, and about crack cocaine and the war on drugs. In 2007 he won the Lindesmith Award for Distinguished Scholarship. His current
research examines the epidemic of racially-biased marijuana arrests in the U.S
and why since 1997
NEW PAGE Media Coverage of Pot Arrests in New York City in 2009 various stories Fall 09
Selected
Publications (most are a pdf which can take a moment to load)
The Epidemic of Pot Arrests in
New York City Aug 09 / Alternet
Op-ed with 2008 arrest data and info on
racially-biased pot arrests nationally
New York City's
Marijuana Arrest Crusade ... Continues Sept 09
Brief update of the NYCLU report with
new graphs and tables
Interview on Latino USA April 08
5 minute radio interview on NPR show about drug wars in
and marijuana possession arrests of black and Latino youth
Marijuana
Arrest Crusade: Racial Bias and Police Policy in New York City, 1997-2007
Pdf - May 08
New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) report, 100 pages / July 07
- Two
page "Flier" with blurbs, graphs and info for Marijuana Arrest
Crusade Dec 08
- Media
Coverage of "Marijuana Arrest Crusade" report June 08
- Youtube.com video by the NYCLU about the Marijuana Arrest
report - June 08
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
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 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 some new material for a European audience, The International
Journal of Drug Policy, Spring 2003
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
Safe Treyf:
New York Jews and Chinese Food From: The Taste of
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)
Temperance Cultures: Concern
About Alcohol Problems in Nordic and English-Speaking Cultures The Nature of
Alcohol and Drug-Related Problems, 1992
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)
9/2009