Mark A.R. Kleiman - Author

Author

In 1993, Kleiman wrote Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results. Here, he makes a ground breaking argument: drug enforcement agencies should view arrest and incarceration of offenders as a "loss" not a "win." By setting up systems in which resources are concentrated to ensure certain arrest for the worst offenders rather than a small risk of arrest for all, agencies can create environments with less drug abuse, less incarceration, and, most importantly, safer streets.

In 2010, Kleiman wrote When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment. James Q. Wilson says of the book: "This is very good. It's not quite as good as Einstein predicting light bending around the sun, . . . but it's a step in the right direction." Jail Break was a September, 2007 article in Washington Monthly that Kleiman took from the Brute Force book. The piece describes the success of Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program.

In 2011, Kleiman co-wrote Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken. Thomas Schelling, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, said of the book: "A product of genius, in form and content: more than two hundred questions, all relevant and urgent, with succinct and lucid answers. When I started the book, I had strong opinions on many of the topics it covered; again and again--every time the book came into conflict with my original beliefs--the authors changed my mind. If you care about drugs, you need to read this book. If you don't, read it anyway, just to see how it's done." That year, Kleiman also co-edited Encyclopedia of Drug Policy with James Hawdon.

Kleiman's most recent book is Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know, co-written with Jonathan Caulkins, Angela Hawken, and Beau Kilmer, published in 2012.