03289nam 2200709Ia 450 991078522890332120230725025424.01-136-91819-11-282-91285-297866129128560-203-84416-5(CKB)2670000000055044(EBL)589644(OCoLC)689996515(SSID)ssj0000416220(PQKBManifestationID)11280773(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416220(PQKBWorkID)10420747(PQKB)11019828(SSID)ssj0001144214(PQKBManifestationID)12402031(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001144214(PQKBWorkID)11132788(PQKB)11460599(MiAaPQ)EBC589644(Au-PeEL)EBL589644(CaPaEBR)ebr10432340(CaONFJC)MIL291285(EXLCZ)99267000000005504420100625d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDrugs, crime and public health[electronic resource] the political economy of drug policy /Alex StevensNew York Routledge20101 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-61067-2 0-415-49104-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexDrugs, 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 demonstratesDrug abuse and crimeDrug abuseGovernment policyDrug abuseDrug controlDrug abuse and crime.Drug abuseGovernment policy.Drug abuse.Drug control.362.29/1561Stevens Alex1481268MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785228903321Drugs, crime and public health3698123UNINA