Craig Reinarman is Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Drug Research at the University of Amsterdam; Visiting Professor at Utrecht University; a member of the board of directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence; a consultant to the World Health Organization’s Programme on Substance Abuse; and a principal investigator on research grants from the U.S. National Institute of Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Reinarman is the author of American States of Mind (Yale University Press, 1987), co-author of Cocaine Changes (Temple University Press, 1991) and Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice (University of California Press, 1997), and co-editor of Expanding Addiction: Critical Essays (Routledge, 2015). He has published numerous articles on drug use, law and policy in such journals as Theory and Society, the British Journal of Addiction, American Journal of Public Health, the International Journal of Drug Policy, and Addiction Research and Theory.
Law, crime, and social justice; drugs in society; political sociology.
Previous Education/Training
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1984-85, Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., 1983, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A., 1975, Sociology, San Francisco State University
B.S., 1971, Economics, Babson College, Wellesley, MA