Harry Gene Levine (born April 1, 1945) is an American sociologist known for his research on alcohol and illicit drugs in American society. He is a professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. His work has included studies on marijuana arrests in New York City, which have found that such arrests are more common there than in any other city in the world, and that they were much more common from 1998 to 2007 than from 1988 to 1997. He has also found that over the 15 years leading up to 2011, far more of those arrested in New York City for marijuana possession were black (54%) than were Latino (33%) or white (12%). Levine's research has also found that during the period from 2002 to 2010, under the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg, marijuana arrests by the NYPD increas
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| - Harry Gene Levine (* 1945) ist ein US-amerikanischer Soziologe. Er zählt zu den Vertretern der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Suchtforschung. Levine ist Professor für Soziologie am Queens College der City University of New York. Seinen Doktortitel (Ph.D.) für Soziologie erhielt er von der University of California, Berkeley, den Bachelor-Abschluss machte er an der Brandeis University. In Forschung und Lehre widmet er sich der Drogenpolitik im historischen Zusammenhang. Er problematisierte, dass im Zusammenhang von Marihuanabesitz und -handel in New York unverhältnismäßig mehr junge Afroamerikaner und Lations verfolgt und verurteilt wurden als junge Weiße, obwohl sie weniger Marihuana konsumierten hatten als die Vergleichsgruppe von Weißen. (de)
- Harry Gene Levine (born April 1, 1945) is an American sociologist known for his research on alcohol and illicit drugs in American society. He is a professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. His work has included studies on marijuana arrests in New York City, which have found that such arrests are more common there than in any other city in the world, and that they were much more common from 1998 to 2007 than from 1988 to 1997. He has also found that over the 15 years leading up to 2011, far more of those arrested in New York City for marijuana possession were black (54%) than were Latino (33%) or white (12%). Levine's research has also found that during the period from 2002 to 2010, under the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg, marijuana arrests by the NYPD increas (en)
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| - Demon of the Middle Class: Self Control, Liquor, and the Ideology of Temperance in 19th Century America (en)
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| - Harry Gene Levine (* 1945) ist ein US-amerikanischer Soziologe. Er zählt zu den Vertretern der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Suchtforschung. Levine ist Professor für Soziologie am Queens College der City University of New York. Seinen Doktortitel (Ph.D.) für Soziologie erhielt er von der University of California, Berkeley, den Bachelor-Abschluss machte er an der Brandeis University. In Forschung und Lehre widmet er sich der Drogenpolitik im historischen Zusammenhang. Er problematisierte, dass im Zusammenhang von Marihuanabesitz und -handel in New York unverhältnismäßig mehr junge Afroamerikaner und Lations verfolgt und verurteilt wurden als junge Weiße, obwohl sie weniger Marihuana konsumierten hatten als die Vergleichsgruppe von Weißen. (de)
- Harry Gene Levine (born April 1, 1945) is an American sociologist known for his research on alcohol and illicit drugs in American society. He is a professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. His work has included studies on marijuana arrests in New York City, which have found that such arrests are more common there than in any other city in the world, and that they were much more common from 1998 to 2007 than from 1988 to 1997. He has also found that over the 15 years leading up to 2011, far more of those arrested in New York City for marijuana possession were black (54%) than were Latino (33%) or white (12%). Levine's research has also found that during the period from 2002 to 2010, under the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg, marijuana arrests by the NYPD increased significantly, and 87% of those arrested for marijuana were black or Hispanic. (en)
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