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OPERATION INTERCEPT
The Multiple Consequences of Public Policy
By Lawrence A. Gooberman
Copyright PERGAMON PRESS INC., 1974
Contents
Preface
Notes
Acknowledgments
1. Operation Intercept: The Policy
and the Research Problem
Factors and Assumptions Underlying the New Public Policy
Operation Intercept: Immediate, Intermediate, and Ultimate Goals
Purpose of the Study, Applied Theoretical Perspectives, and Hypotheses
Formulation of the Research Problem and Methodology
Notes
2. The Multiple
Consequences of Operation Intercept
The Availability of Marihuana During the Operation Intercept Era
Summary
Behavioral Reactions to the General Marihuana Shortage
Abstaining and Decreased Drug Use
Switching: The Availability and Use of Drugs
Other than Marihuana
Summary
Attitudinal Responses to the Government Policy
Summary
Trusting Attitudes
Distrustful Attitudes
Notes
3. Analysis of the
Findings: Public Policy and the Drug Abuse Problem
The Findings
Additional Evidence Concerning the Unanticipated Consequences of Operation Intercept
The Social Context of Operation Intercept: An Examination of Contingent Conditions and
Traditional Controls in a Decade of Change
The Ineffectiveness of Traditional Controls and the Formation of the Operation Intercept
Policy
An Analysis of the Differential Effects of Operation Intercept
Notes
4. Operation Intercept:
Past, Present, and Future
Notes
Appendix
I. Members of the Narcotics, Marihuana and
Dangerous Drugs Task Force
II. The Interview Guide
III. Findings From Grosse Pointe Study: Interview
Excerpts
The Author
Lawrence A. Gooberman (Ph.D., The City University of New York) is Director of Social
Services, Margaretville Memorial and Delaware Valley Hospitals, Delaware County, New York.
His primary professional interest is in public policy analysis, particularly in the fields
of medical sociology, drug abuse and deviant behavior. Dr. Gooberman has been a National
Science Foundation Fellow and has done research for the Vera Institute of Justice and the
President's Commission on Obscenity. He has been a New York City Probation Officer and has
taught sociology at the State University College at New Paltz and Brooklyn College.
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