Books Received

• DOI: 10.1177/002204269402400317
• Published date: 01 July 1994
• Date: 01 July 1994
• Subject Matter: Books Received

and international law enforcement resulted in the author's decision to

interview about three hundred individuals involved in international law

enforcement to better understand its evolution, nature and challenges. He

learned how DEA agents were able to circumvent legal restrictions on

undercover operations, recruit and use European and Latin American

informants, and deal with police corruption. In addition he discovered how

compensating mechanisms were used in the absence of sovereign police

authority on foreign soil. How Justice Department officials attempted to

better their foreign evidence gathering skills, largely to improve its

admissibility in American courts, and the ways in which justice systems in

other sovereign states changed in response to American requests and pressures

also became clear.

The book seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of U.S. international

law enforcement activities, to scrutinize dimensions that have not been closely

analyzed elsewhere, and to focus on new perspectives. Eight chapters

examine the internationalization of U. S. Law Enforcement from 1789 - 1939

and from 1940 - 1942; the DEA in Europe: Dealing with Foreign Systems;

the DEA in Latin America: Dealing with International Rendition of

Fugitives; and the Transformation of International Law Enforcement.

BOOKS RECEIVED

Beck, Jerome and Marsha Rosenbaum. Pursuit

of

Ecstasy: The MDMA

Experience. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994, 239

pp., npi, clothbound.

Berg, Steven L. Jewish Alcoholism and Drug Addiction. Westport, CT:

Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993, 160 pp., $55, clothbound.

Heather, Nick, Alex Wodak, Ethan Nadelmann and Pat O'Hare eds.

Psychoactive Drugs &Harm Reduction: From Faith to Science. London:

Whurr Publishers, 1993, 345 pp., $49.95, paperbound (available from

Singular Publishing Group, 4284 41st Street, San Diego, CA 92015).

Kraska, Peter B., Ed. Altered States

of

Mind: Critical Observations

of

the Drug

War. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993,271 pp., $45, clothbound.

Lang, Susan S. and Richard B. Patt. You Don't Have to Suffer: A Complete

Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain for Patients and their Families. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1994, 355 pp., $25, clothbound.

Ross, H. Laurence, Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992, 220 pp., $12, paperbound.

Soby, Jeanette M. Prenatal Exposure to Drugs/Alcohol: Characteristics and

Educational Implications

of

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Cocaine/Polydrug

Effects. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1994, 126 pp., $33.75,

clothbound.

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