Topic
Volstead Act
About: Volstead Act is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 28 publications have been published within this topic receiving 246 citations. The topic is also known as: National Prohibition Act.
Papers
TL;DR: National Prohibition succeeded both in lowering consumption and in retaining political support until the onset of the Great Depression altered voters' priorities, and Repeal resulted more from this contextual shift than from characteristics of the innovation itself.
Abstract: The conventional view that National Prohibition failed rests upon an historically flimsy base. The successful campaign to enact National Prohibition was the fruit of a century-long temperance campaign, experience of which led prohibitionists to conclude that a nationwide ban on alcohol was the most promising of the many strategies tried thus far. A sharp rise in consumption during the early 20th century seemed to confirm the bankruptcy of alternative alcohol-control programs. The stringent prohibition imposed by the Volstead Act, however, represented a more drastic action than many Americans expected. Nevertheless, National Prohibition succeeded both in lowering consumption and in retaining political support until the onset of the Great Depression altered voters’ priorities. Repeal resulted more from this contextual shift than from characteristics of the innovation itself.
177 citations
TL;DR: In the early days of the 1980s and 1990s, the decision of the nation, expressed through its legislators, seemed to be to “criminalize” drug use or abuse through imposition of harsh penalties for what had earlier been statutorily defined as relatively minor offenses and by eliminating judicial discretion in sentencing, so that mandatory incarceration was required for many offenses.
Abstract: Although its remote origins can be traced to the end of prohibition with the repeal of the Volstead Act in 1933, the nation's “war on drugs” gathered massive strength in the early days of the Reagan administration. During the 1980s and 1990s, the decision of the nation, expressed through its legislators, seemed to be to “criminalize” drug use or abuse through imposition of harsh penalties for what had earlier been statutorily defined as relatively minor offenses and by eliminating judicial discretion in sentencing, so that mandatory incarceration was required for many offenses. Yet by 2000, the voters of California, the Governor and criminal court judges of New York, and even the nation's “drug czar” had decided that they would rather, as described by the New York Times, “treat than fight.” This paper situates that sea change in posture within a context of oscillation toward the goals of corrections generally during an era in which “therapeutic nihilism” and “just deserts” appeared to have carrie...
25 citations
Book•
1 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of Jews in the American alcohol trade during the early 19th century and the Volstead Act of 1892, concluding that "the Law of the Land is the Law".
Abstract: List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Alcohol and Acculturation 1. Setting Up Shop: Jews Becoming Americans in the Nineteenth-Century Alcohol Trade 2. "Do As We Israelites Do": American Jews and the Gilded-Age Temperance MovementPart II: Alcohol and Anti-Semitism 3. Kosher Wine and Jewish Saloons: New Jewish Immigrants Enter the American Alcohol Trade 4. An "Unscrupulous Jewish Type of Mind": Jewish Alcohol Entrepreneurs and Their Critics Part III: Jews and the Prohibition Era 5. Rabbis and Other Bootleggers: Jews as Prohibition-Era Alcohol Entrepreneurs 6. "The Law of the Land is the Law": Jews Respond to the Volstead Act Conclusion Index About the Author
21 citations
1 Jan 2002
TL;DR: The Capper-Volstead Act as discussed by the authors provides a limited exemption from antitrust liability for agricultural producers who market the products they produce on a cooperative basis, but it does not require them to enhance the prices they charge, consolidate with or collaborate in anticcompetitive conduct with nonproducers, or engage in conduct with no legitimate business purpose that is intended to reduce competition.
Abstract: The Capper-Volstead Act provides a limited exemption from antitrust liability for agricultural producers who market the products they produce on a cooperative basis. Without Capper-Volstead, farmers who agree amon g them selves on the pric es they 'll accept for their prod ucts and other terms of trade would risk being held in violation of antitrust law. Even with the exemption, agricultural producers are not f ree to un duly enhance the prices they charge, consolidate with or collaborate in anticompetitive conduct with nonproducers, or engage in conduct with no legitimate business purpose that is intended to reduce competition.
15 citations
TL;DR: It is over 50 years since repeal of the Volstead Act ended the Prohibition "experiment" and the United States has slowly evolved a public health approach to alcoholism.
Abstract: It is over 50 years since repeal of the Volstead Act ended the Prohibition "experiment." Since then, the United States has slowly evolved a public health approach to alcoholism.1 There has been gra...
13 citations
Related Topics (5)
Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |