Publications

Books & Monographs

An Analysis of UK Drug Policy, Peter Reuter & Alex Stevens, UK Drug Policy Commission, April 2007.

An Analytic Assessment of U.S. Drug Policy, D. Boyum & P. Reuter, American Enterprise Institute, 2005

How Goes the War on Drugs , Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter Reuter, Martin Y. Iguchi, and and James Chiesa, RAND , 2005.

Chasing Dirty Money:The Fight Against Money Laundering , Peter Reuter and Edwin M. Truman, Institute for International Economics, Novemeber 2004.

Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Places, Times and Vices MacCoun, R. and Reuter. Cambridge University Press (2001)

Money from Crime , Peter Reuter, Robert MacCoun, and Patrick Murphy, RAND , 1990.

The Organization of High Level Drug Markets , Peter Reuter and John Haaga, RAND , February 1989.

Articles & Book Chapters

Drug Markets

"Drug Trafficking and Ethnic Minorities in Western Europe," Letizia Paoli and Peter Reuter, European Journal of Criminology, Vol 5(13), 2008

"Reorienting U.S. Drug Policy," Jonathan P. Caulkins & Peter Reuter, Issues in Science and Technology Online, Fall 2006.

"Can Supply Restrictions Lower Price? Violence, Drug Dealing and Positional Advantage," Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter Reuter, and Lowell J. Taylor, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol 5(1), 2006.

"Illicit Drug Markets and Economic Irregularities", Jonathan Caulkins and Peter Reuter, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 40 (2006) 1–14.

"Illegal Lemons: Price Dispersion in Cocaine and Heroin Markets", P. Reuter and J. P. Caulkins, Bulletin on Narcotics
Volume LVI, Nos. 1 and 2, 2004, pp. 141-165.

"Evaluating Explanations of the Australian 'Heroin Shortage,'" Louisa Degenhardt, Peter Reuter, Linette Collins, & Wayne Hall, Addiction Vol 100, pp 459-469.

"The Political Economy of Drug Smuggling", Peter Reuter, Chapter 7 in Vellinga, M. (ed.) The Political Economy of the Drug Industry. University Press of Florida, Gainesville (2004).

“The need for dynamic models of drug markets” Bulletin on Narcotics 53, 2001, pp. 1-10.

“What Price Data Tells Us About Drug Markets” Caulkins, J., and Reuter. Journal of Drug Issues Vol. 28 (3), Summer 1998, pp. 593-513

“The Meaning and Utility of Drug Prices” Caulkins, J., and Reuter. Addiction Vol. 91 (9), September 1996, pp. 1261-1264.

“Are the Wages of Sin $30 and Hour? Economic Aspects of Street-level Drug Dealing,” (with R. MaCoun) Crime and Delinquency Vol. 38 (4), October 1992, pp. 477-492

"Risks and Prices: An Economic Analysis of Drug Enforcement," Reuter, P. & M. Kleiman (1986) Crime and Justice: An Annual Review 9 , pp.128-179.

Drug Policy

When is alcohol just another drug? Philip J. Cook& Peter Reuter. Addiction, Vol 102, 2007, 1183–1188

"The implications of recent findings on the link between cannabis and psychosis", Harold Pollack & Peter Reuter, Addiction, Vol 102, 2007. pp. 173-176.

"Welfare Receipt and Substance Abuse Treatment Among Low-Income Mothers: The Impact of Welfare Reform," Harold Pollack & Peter Reuter, American Journal of Public Health, Vol 96(11), pp. 2024-2031..

"What Drug Policies Cost. Estimating Government Drug Policy Expenditures," Peter Reuter, Addiction, Vol 101, 2006. pp. 312-322.

"How Much Can Treatment Reduce National Drug Problems?" Peter Reuter & Harold Pollack, Addiction, Vol 101, 2006. pp. 341-347.

"Does Precursor Regulation Make a Difference?", Peter Reuter & Jonathan P. Caulkins, Addiction Vol. 98 (9), September 2003, pp. 1177-1179

"Drug Use", Peter Reuter, Chapter 13, Besharov, Douglas (ed.) Family and Child Well-Being After Welfare Reform. Transaction Press, New Brunswich, NJ 2003

"Research on Drugs-Crime Linkages: The Next Generation", MacCoun, R., Kilmer, B. & Peter Reuter, NIJ Special Report, July 2003

“Evaluating Alternative Cannabis Control Regimes” MacCoun, R., and Reuter. British J. of Psychiatry Vol. 178, 2001, pp. 123-128.

“Measuring global drug markets; how good are the numbers and why should we care about them” Reuter and Greenfield V. World Economics Vol. 2 (4), 2001, pp.155-173.

“Why Does Research Have So Little Impact on American Drug Policy?” Addiction Vol. 96 (3), March 2001, pp. 373-376

“Interpreting Dutch Cannabis Policy: Reasoning by Analogy in the Drug Legalization Debate” MacCoun, R., and Reuter. Science Vol. 278, October 3, 1997, pp. 47-52

"Why Can't We Make Prohibition Work Better?" Peter Reuter. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , Vol. 141, No. 3. (Sep., 1997), pp. 262-275

“Setting Goals for Drug Policy: Harm Reduction or Use Reduction?” Caulkins, J., and Reuter. Addiction Vol. 97 (9), September 1997, pp. 1143-1150

“Can the Borders be Sealed?” The Public Interest, Summer 1988, pp. 51-65

"Is a U.S. Heroin Maintenance Experiment Necessary?" (Reuter and R. MacCoun) in Musto (ed.) One Hundred Years of Heroin. Greenwood Press, 2001

Money Laundering

"Money Laundering,'" Michael Levi & Peter Reuter, Crime and Justice, Vol 34, 2006, pp. 289-375.

"Money Laundering Controls and Terrorist Finance,'" Peter Reuter, Edwin M. Truman, Financial Regulator Vol. 10, No. 2 September 2005, pp.35-37

Crime

"Revisiting Incapacitation: Can We Generate New Esimates?" Peter Reuter, Shawn D. Bushwa, J Quant Criminol Vol. 23 (2007), pp. 259–265

"Australia: A Massive Buyback of Low-Risk Guns", Peter Reuter & Jenny Mouzos, Chapter 4, Cook, P. and J. Ludwig (eds) Evaluating Gun Control. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC 2003.

"Labor Markets and Crime Risk Factors" Bushway, S. and Peter Reuter in Farrington & Welsh (eds.) Preventing Crime. London, Routledge, Kegan and Paul, pp. 198-240 (2002). Also Chapter 6 in Lawrence Sherman et al. Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't and What is Promising. National Institute of Justice, 1997.

"Labor Markets and Crime" Bushway, S. and Peter Reuter in Wilson, J., and J. Petersilia (eds.) Crime, 2nd edition, 2001, pp. 191-224.

“Suppressing Gun Markets: Insights from Drug Enforcement” C. Koper and Reuter. Law and Contemporary Problems Vol 59 (1), Winter 1996, pp. 119-146.