Alex Stevens

Drugs, Crime and Public Health

The Political Economy of Drug Policy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 argues that problematic drug use can only be understood in the social context in which it takes place.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780415610674
• ISBN-10: 0415610672
• Artikelnr.: 33601176

Autorenporträt

Alex Stevens is a Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of Kent. He has worked on issues of drugs, crime and health in the voluntary sector, as an academic researcher and as an adviser to the UK government, and has published extensively on these issues.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Starting Points: Drugs, Values and Drug Policy 2. 'Afflictions of
Inequality'? The Social Distribution of Drug Use, Dependence and Related
Harms 3. Beyond the Tripartite Framework: The Subterranean Structuration of
the Drug-Crime Link 4. Telling Policy Stories: Governmental Use of Evidence
and Policy on Drugs and Crime 5. The Ideology of Exclusion: Cases in
English Drug Policy 6. The Effects of Drug Policy 7. International
Perspectives: Does Drug Policy Matter? 8. Towards Progressive
Decriminalisation