Volume 40, Number 4 · February 11, 1993
Drugs and the Law
By Mark Kleiman, Reply by Michael Massing
In response to The New Mafia
(December 3, 1992)
To the Editors:
Allow me to offer one correction to Michael Massing's friendly critique of my book Against Excess [NYR, December 3, 1992]. It does not propose an expansion of drug law enforcement. Rather it suggests that an expansion of total enforcement, especially non-prison corrections, is necessary to avoid the effective decriminalization of progressively more serious varieties of predatory crime due to the enforcement burden created by the drug trade.
Mark Kleiman
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts