Catherine Carstairs

Jailed for Possession

Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961

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Produktbeschreibung

Jailed for Possession is the first social history of drug use in Canada and provides a careful examination of drug users and their regulators including doctors, social workers, and police officers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780802093721
• ISBN-10: 0802093728
• Artikelnr.: 22307483

Autorenporträt

By Catherine Carstairs

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
1. The Drug Panic of the 1920s and the Drive for Chinese Exclusion
2.  ‘Hop Heads’: The Effects of Criminalization, 1920–1945
3.  ‘Hypes’: Using and Quitting, 1945–1961
4.  ‘After a Short Struggle’: Police Officers and Drug Users
5. Proscribing Prescribing: Doctors, Drug Users, and the Division of
Narcotic Control
6. Turning Rounders into Square Johns: Drug Users and the John Howard
Society
7. Free Drugs or Prison for Life? Changing Approaches to Treatment
Conclusion
APPENDIX
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX