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.

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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

Catherine Carstairs is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.

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