Title: "'Targeting Blacks: The NYPD's Huge Number of Racially-Biased Arrests for Marijuana Possession and other Misdemeanors" Harry G. Levinereceived his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from Brandeis University. In recent years he has taught Introduction to Sociology, Drugs and Society, the History of Food, and Sociological Theory. Much of his research and writing has focused on drugs, alcohol and food in historical context. He has won awards for his writing about the history of addiction, about alcohol prohibition and regulation, and about crack cocaine and the war on drugs. In 2007 he won the Lindesmith Award for Distinguished Scholarship. His current research examines the epidemic of racially-biased marijuana arrests in the U.S and why, since 1997, New York City has arrested more people for possessing small amounts of marijuana than any city in the world.
