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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459655003321

Autore

Stevens Alex

Titolo

Drugs, crime and public health [[electronic resource] ] : the political economy of drug policy / / Alex Stevens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-282-91285-2

9786612912856

0-203-84416-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

362.29/1561

Soggetti

Drug abuse and crime

Drug abuse - Government policy

Drug abuse

Drug control

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Chapter 1 Starting points: Drugs, values and drug policy; Chapter 2 'Afflictions of inequality'?: The social distribution of drug use, dependence and related harms; Chapter 3 Beyond the tripartite framework: The subterranean structuration of the drug-crime link; Chapter 4 Telling policy stories: Governmental use of evidence and policy on drugs and crime; Chapter 5 The ideology of exclusion: Cases in English drug policy; Chapter 6 The effects of drug policy; Chapter 7 International perspectives: Does drug policy matter?

Chapter 8 Towards progressive decriminalizationEndnotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it discusses theoretical perspectives and provides new empirical evidence which challenges prevalent ways of thinking about illicit drugs. It argues that



problematic drug use can only be understood in the social context in which it takes place, a context which it shares with other problems of crime and public health. The book demonstrates