Troy Smith Duster (born July 11, 1936) is an American sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance.
[1] In 1970, Duster published The Legislation of Morality in which he showed how hundreds of thousands of previously law-abiding drug addicts became associated with the deviant and criminal segment of society after the United States Supreme Court in Webb v. United States interpreted the Harrison Narcotic Law (1914) to prohibit physician prescriptions for the maintenance of existing physical opiate dependance.
[2] It was easier, Duster concluded, for middle America to direct its moral hostility "toward a young, lower-class Negro male than toward a middle-aged white female".
[4] He was also a contributing member of the International HapMap Project, an organization that worked to develop the first haplotype map of the human genome.
[4][6] Duster then went to the University of California, Los Angeles, for graduate school, earning a master's degree in Sociology in 1959.