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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812677703321

Autore

Kalunta-Crumpton Anita <1962->

Titolo

Drugs, victims and race : the politics of drug control / / Anita Kalunta-Crumpton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winchester, UK, : Waterside Press

Portland, Or., : Distributed in North America by International Specialized Book Services (ISBS), 2006

ISBN

1-281-12445-1

9786611124458

1-906534-13-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

362.29

Soggetti

Drug abuse - Government policy - Great Britain

Drug control - Great Britain

Drug traffic - Great Britain

Ethnic groups - Drug use - Great Britain

Minorities - Drug use - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Acknowledgements -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- Select List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Race and the Prosecution of Drug Offences in Crown Court Trials -- 2 Drug Use: Social Characteristics, Policy and Practice -- 3 Drugs Supply: Representations in Discourse, Policy and Practice -- 4 Visible Minority Ethnic Community Issues in Problematic Drug Use -- 5 Double Invisibility: The Case of Italian and Portuguese Problem Drug Use -- 6 The Drug Problem as a Global Phenomenon -- 7 Is There a Way Forward? -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.