Great video, I found it put a lot of elements in perspective, so that was very helpful. Very slight criticism of how one claim was framed-- If someone concludes a teen crime problem is mainly caused by drugs and that the government should play a role in the solution, it does not automatically follow that the *police* should be a major part of that solution. We'd need to look at the social mechanisms and incentives behind the drug-crime link. Under a variety of conditions (not all), an increased police involvement can make the incentives worse and exacerbate the mechanisms which strengthen the drug-crime link, thus increasing total crime without necessarily reducing teen drug use much if at all. My impression is that the scholarship on the drug-crime link and the role of drug criminalization and policing in its mechanisms is filled with uncertainty and emphasis on context-sensitivity.
Hello Dr. Wielhouwer. Do you have a video of Part 1? I am having my class read Ch. 1 and 2 of your book and would love to add this video as a supplement.