Business, Economics, and Drug Policy

Drugs & Economics Memo. CJPF and BCPS quarterly newsletter, started in Fall of 2005, which provides news and analysis on business, economics, and drug prohibition.

Sterling, E. E. (2006, January 15). Our Dead-End Approach to Homicide. The Washington Post. Sterling explores the factors that have led to a growing murder rate in the DC region, such as untreated mental illness, the breakdown of the family, and an inadequate juvenile justice system. Sterling suggests that more effective policing and police management could help to lower the murder rate and increase the number of solved homicide cases.

Sterling, E. E. (2005, June 7). Retail Alone Won't Help Prince George's. The Washington Post. In this letter to the editor, Sterling attributed the difficulty of attracting high-end retailers in Prince George County to the county's overwhelming crime rate. Sterling pointed out that this is a direct result of drug turf wars and prohibition-related violence and called for a "new approach to policing and the drug problem".

Sterling, E. E. (2004). A Businessperson's Guide to the Drug Problem.
In this chapter from The New Prohibition, Sterling writes about the economic ramifications of the war on drugs.

Sterling, E. E. (1997, Spring, Volume 31, Number 2). Drug Policy: A Smorgasbord of Conundrums Spiced By Emotions Around Children and Violence. Valparaiso Law Review. The following section of this 49-page law review comment in a 500-page symposium volume, "Juvenile Crime: Policy Proposals on Guns, Violence, Drugs and Gangs," addresses the economic affects of of drug prohibition.