Emeriti Faculty

- Title
- Professor Emeritus
- Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies Emeritus
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Affiliations Community Studies Program, Legal Studies
- Phone 831-459-2617
- Fax 831-459-3518
- Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, Rachel Carson College 214
- Office Hours By appointment; contact by e-mail
- Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Drug Policy, Law and Policy, Social Justice
- Courses SOCY 122: Sociology of Law; SOCY 127: Drugs and Society; SOCY 202: Contemporary Sociological Theory; SOCY 246: Class, Culture, Movements; SOCY 1: Introduction to Sociology
Research Interests
Law, crime, and social justice; drugs in society; political sociology.
Biography, Education and Training
B.S., Babson College
M.A., San Francisco State University
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Selected Publications
- "Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice," with H.G. Levine et al (University of California Press, 1997)
- "Cocaine Changes: The Experience of Using and Quitting," with D. Waldorf and S. Murphy (Temple University Press, 1991)
- "American States of Mind: Political Beliefs and Behavior" (Yale University Press, 1987)
- "The War on Drugs" Oxford Encyclopedia on American Social History (Oxford University Press, 2012) with H.G. Levine
- "Does Cannabis Cause Poverty, Too? Beyond the Malevolence Paradigm," Addiction 106 (2011)
- "Medical Marijuana Patients: Population Characteristics from Nine California Clinics," Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 43/2 (2011), with H. Nunberg, T. Heddleston, F. Lanthier
- "Signs and Shapes of a Culture of Tolerance: Ethnographic Impressions from Amsterdam," Sustain: Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Issues 21 (2009)
- "Cannabis Policies and User Practices: Market Separation, Price, Potency, and Accessibility in Amsterdam and San Francisco," International Journal of Drug Policy 20 (2009)
- "Policing Pleasure: Food Drugs, and the Politics of Ingestion," Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 7/3 (2007)
- "5 Myths About That Demon Crack: The Supreme Court's Sentencing Problem." Washington Post, October 14, 2007
- "Addition as Accomplishment: The Discursive Construction of Disease," Addiction Research and Theory 13 (2005)
- "Crack in the Rearview Mirror: Deconstructing Drug War Mythology," Social Justice 31 (2004) with H.G. Levine
- “The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy: Cannabis in Amsterdam and San Francisco,” American Journal of Public Health 94 (2004), with P. Cohen and H. Kaal
- “Cannabis Control: Cost Outweigh Benefits,” British Medical Journal 324 (2002)
- “An 11-Year Follow Up of a Network of Cocaine Users, “British Journal of Addiction 84, (1918), with S. Murphy and D. Waldorf
- “Social Organization and Differential Association: A Longitudinal Study of Violent Offenders,” Crime and Delinquency 34 (1988, with J. Fagan
- “The Social Construction of an Alcohol Problem: The Case of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers and Social Control in the 1980’s.” Theory and Society 17 (1988)
- “Culture, Cognition, and Disinhibition: Sexuality and Alcohol in the Age of AIDS,” Contemporary Drug Problems 14 (1987), with B. C. Leigh
- “Causality, Context, and Contingency: Relationships Between Drug Abuse and Violent Delinquency,” Contemporary Drug Problems, 12 (1985), with J. Watters and J. Fagan
- “Unemployment and Economic Crisis,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 28 (1983)
- “On the Cultural Domestication of Intoxicants,” in Intoxication and Society: Problematic Pleasures of Drugs and Alcohol, J. Herring, D. Weinberg, P. Withington, eds. (London: Palgrave McMillan, 2012)
- “Cannabis in Cultural and Legal Limbo: Criminalisation, Legalisation, and the Mixed Blessing of Medicalisation in the USA,” in The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society, S. Fraser and D. Moore, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
- “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), with P. Cohen
- “Twelve-Step Movements and Advanced Capitalist Culture: On the Politics of Self Control in Postmodernity,” in Social Movements and Cultural Politics, M. Darnovsky, B. Epstein, and R. Flacks, eds. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995)
- “From Prohibition to Regulation,” in Confronting Drug Policy: Illicit Drugs in a Free Society, R. Bayer and G. Oppenheimer, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 1993)