Law Enforcement, Psychiatrists, and the Racialization of Drug Addiction in Postwar America
Posted by: Dan Turello
Washington University in St. Louis historian Sonia Song-Ha Lee, who regularly teaches classes about the civil rights movement, recalls being struck by the discrepancy between triumphant accounts of the history of desegregation and the more sobering realities of present day mass incarceration in the United States. The Sentencing Project estimates that 2.2 million individuals are presently …
Posted in: Psychology & Psychiatry