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Craig Reinarman

Craig Reinarman   
Craig Reinarman
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Email:  craigr@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-2617 Office
(831) 459-3516 Message
    Office:  College 8, 303
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Wed 3-6pm; and by appt

Courses Taught 
Sociology of Law
Drugs and Society
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Class, Culture, Movements
Introduction to Sociology
Political Consciousness

Research Focus 
Law, crime, and social justice; drugs in society; political sociology.

Education History 
B.S., Babson College
M.A., San Francisco State University
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Publications 

Reinarman, C. 2008. "Cannabis Policies and User Practices: Market Separation, Price, Potency, and Accessibility in Amsterdam and San Francisco." International Journal of Drug Policy, 19.

Reinarman, C. 2007. "Lineaments of Cannabis Culture: Rules Regulating Cannabis Use in Amsterdam and San Francisco." Contemporary Justice Review, 10.

Reinarman, C. Die soziale Konstruktion von Drogenpaniken, in Sozialwissenschaftliche Suchtforschung, [Socioscientific Addiction Research], B. Dollinger, ed., (Hamburg: Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften, 2007). Revision and German translation of Reinarman, C. The Social Construction of Drug Scares, in Constructions of Deviance, P. & P. Adler, eds. (Wadsworth, 2006).

Reinarman, C., and P. Cohen. "Law, Culture, and Cannabis: Comparing Use Patterns in Amsterdam and San Francisco," in Pot Politics: Marijuana and the Costs of Prohibition, M. Earleywine, Ed., (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Reinarman, C. "5 Myths About That Demon Crack: The Supreme Court's Sentencing Problem." Washington Post, October 14, 2007.

Reinarman, C. 2007. "Policing Pleasure: Food, Drugs, and the Politics of Ingestion." Gastronomica, Summer 2007.

Reinarman, C. Hess's Mafia, the Mosaic of Criminological Theory, and the Corporate Crime Wave, in Kriminalitats-Geschichten, Hamburger Studien zur Kriminologie und Kriminalpolitik, Band 41, R. Behr, H. Crèmer-Schafer, & S. Scheerer, eds. (Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 2006).

Reinarman, C. "Between Genes and Addiction," Drugs and Alcohol Today (London), Feb., 2006.

Reinarman, C. 2005. "Librarians and Other Subversives: Truth Can Be a Casualty in Drug Wars." International Journal of Drug Policy, 16 [reprinted in Russian special issue of IJDP, 2006, and in Italian as Reinarman, C. Bibliotecari e altri sovversivi by Centro Studi, Documentazione e Ricerche, Gruppo Abele onlus, Torino, 2005].

Reinarman, C. 2005. "Addiction as accomplishment: The discursive construction of disease." Addiction Research and Theory, 13.

Reinarman, C., and H. G. Levine, 2004. "Crack in the Rearview Mirror: Deconstructing Drug War Mythology." Social Justice, 31.

Reinarman, C., P.D.A. Cohen, H. L. Kaal, 2004. "The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy: Cannabis in Amsterdam and San Francisco." American Journal of Public Health, 94. 

Reinarman, C., A. Wodak and P.D.A. Cohen, 2002. "Cannabis Control: Costs Outweigh Benefits," British Medical Journal, 324.

Reinarman, C. 2001. "Capitalism, Prohibitionism, and the Drug Policy Reform Movement." International Journal of Drug Policy, 12.

Reinarman, C., and H. G. Levine, eds. 1997. Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Reinarman, C. 1997. "The Drug Policy Debate in Europe:  The Case of Califano vs. The Netherlands." International Journal of Drug Policy, 8.

Reinarman, C., and H. G. Levine. 1992. "From Prohibition to Control: Lessons from Alcohol Policy for Drug Policy." Milbank Quarterly, 69.

Reinarman, C., Waldorf, D., and Murphy, S. 1991. Cocaine Changes: The Experience of Using and Quitting.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Reinarman, C. 1991. "Needle Sharing, Shooting Galleries, and AIDS Risks among Intravenous Drug Users." Criminal Justice Policy Review, 3.

Reinarman, C., and Levine, H. G. 1989. "Crack in Context: Politics and Media in the Making of a Drug Scare." Contemporary Drug Problems, 16.

Reinarman, C. 1987. American States of Mind: Political Beliefs and Behavior among Private and Public Workers. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

Other publications:

Dominant Ideology and Drugs in the Media

The Dutch Example Shows that Liberal Drug Laws Can Be Beneficial