The narcs’ game

Society volume 17, pages70–73(1980)Cite this article

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  1. professor of sociology and psychiatry, Michigan State University, USA

    Peter K. Manning

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Printed by permission of MIT Press. From the forthcoming bookThe Narcs’ Game by Peter K. Manning, copyright © 1980 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is author of Police Work: The Social Organization of Policing.

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Manning, P.K. The narcs’ game. Society 17, 70–73 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694808

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Keywords

  • Drug Problem
  • Legal Constraint
  • Drug Enforcement
  • Penalty Structure
  • High Arrest Rate