Drugs, crime and public health [[electronic resource] ] : the political economy of drug policy / / Alex Stevens
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Stevens Alex
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| Titolo: |
Drugs, crime and public health [[electronic resource] ] : the political economy of drug policy / / Alex Stevens
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.29/1561 |
| Soggetto topico: | Drug abuse and crime |
| Drug abuse - Government policy | |
| Drug abuse | |
| Drug control | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Drugs, crime and public health |
| ISBN: | 1-282-91285-2 |
| 9786612912856 | |
| 0-203-84416-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459655003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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