Susan C Boyd, Connie Carter

Killer Weed

Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Going beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged from the media narrative have troubling consequences for a shrinking Canadian civil society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781442643673
• ISBN-10: 1442643676
• Artikelnr.: 40116118

Autorenporträt

Susan C. Boyd is a professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Marijuana Grow Ops: Setting the Scene
Chapter One: A Brief Socio-History of Drug Scares, Racialization, Nation
Building, and Policy
Chapter Two: Problematizing Marijuana Grow Ops: Mayerthorpe and Beyond
Chapter Three: Marijuana Grow Ops and Organized Crime
Chapter Four: Racialization of Marijuana Grow Ops
Chapter Five: Civil Responses to Marijuana Grow Ops
Chapter Six: Using Children to Promote Increased Regulation: The
Representation and Regulation of Children and Parents Found at Grow Ops
Chapter Seven: Alternative Perspectives
Appendix
Newspaper References
References
Notes