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"A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914 (2014)
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Auerbach, S. (2014). "A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914. Transnational Penal Cultures. Routledge

The relationship of twentieth-century democracies to the explicit employment of fear and intimidation within their own national borders was an ambivalent one. On the one hand, police and judicial officials, responding to perceived public outcry or th... Read More about "A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914.