Nigel South (ed.)

Drugs

Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life
Herausgeber: South, Nigel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This authoritative overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of `normalization' of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; `drugs' and `users' as `other' or `dangerous'; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images of `race' and drugs; medical responses to drugs; policing strategies and controlling drug users; drug control and sport; and the question of prohibition versus liberalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780761952343
• ISBN-10: 0761952349
• Artikelnr.: 21956320

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION - Nigel South Debating Drugs and Everyday Life Normalization, Prohibition and
Otherness
PART TWO: CULTURES: FORMS AND REPRESENTATIONS Dances with Drugs - Harry Shapiro Pop Music, Drugs and Youth Culture Drugs and Culture - Sheila Henderson The Question of Gender White Lines - Karim Murji Culture, `Race
and Drugs PART THREE: CONTROLS: POLICY, POLICING AND PROHIBITION Medicine, Custom or Moral Fibre - Susanne MacGregor Policy Responses to Drug Misuse Drugs and Policing in Europe - Nicholas Dorn and Maggy Lee From Low Streets to High Places Controlling Drugs in Sport - Ross Coomber Contradictions and Complexity Drugs as a Password and the Law as a Drug - Vincenzo Ruggiero Discussing the Legalization of Illicit Substances PART FOUR: CONCLUSION Taking Tea with Noel - Michael Shiner and Tim Newburn The Place and Meaning of Drug Use in Everyday Life

Rezensionen

`This book contributes with authority to current debates on drug issues. It gives an overview of how we got here with insights to a future where positions may be less polarised.... Its interdisciplinary approach and cogent discussion make it useful for those wanting either an introductory text or new perspectives....This light paperback is packed with invaluable reading and references. It will resonate with anyone with an interest in drug use and Britain today' - Drug Link `This a timely and cogently argued set of essays' The British Journal of Sociology `Overall this is a timely and much needed volume with many of the contributions seemingly worthy in their own right. It provides an excellent overview of some of the most important and pressing issues in this area. Whilst the issue of drugs and drug consumption may be an expanding area of research, good literature in this area is surprisingly hard to come by. This book will provide an excellent resource for both lectures and students who are interested in these issues' - Sociology