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The Culture of Extreme Drinking
Redaktion: Martinic, Marjana; Measham, Fiona

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines extreme drinking among young people around the world. This title explores the factors that motivate extreme drinking behaviour, cultural contexts, prevention and policy. It also includes results of focus groups conducted with young people in Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135916046
• Artikelnr.: 38268143

Autorenporträt

Marjana Martinic, PhD, is Vice President for Public Health at the International Center for Alcohol Policies (ICAP, U.S.A.). She has published extensively in the fields of neuroscience and alcohol policy. Her previous book, Reasonable Risk: Alcohol in Perspective (2004; co-authored with Barbara Leigh), is volume seven in the ICAP Book Series on Alcohol in Society. Fiona Measham, PhD, was appointed to Lancaster University (U.K) in 2000 and is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Applied Social Science. She has over 20 years of experience publishing in the fields of alcohol and drug studies, gender, licensed leisure, and cultural criminology.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors. Contributors. Martinic
Measham
A Case for the Term "Extreme Drinking." Measham
A History of Intoxication: Changing Attitudes to Drunkenness and Excess in the United Kingdom. Nahoum-Grappe
Beyond Boundaries: Youth and the Dream of the Extreme. Choquet
Case Study: Drinking Among Young People in France. Leigh
Lee
What Motivates Extreme Drinking? Measham
Case Study: Drinking Among Young People in the United Kingdom. Focus Group Results. Gorgulho
Da Ros
Brazil. Newman
China. Tempesta
Italy. Odejide
Omigbodun
Ajuwon
Makanjuola
Bamgboye
Oshiname
Nigeria. Koshkina
Russia. Makan
South Africa. March
United Kingdom (Scotland). Leverton
Evans
Stakeholders and Their Roles. Martinic
Alexander
Extreme Drinking
Young People
and Feasible Policy. Pérez-Fragero
Case Study: Botellón in Spain. Gorgulho
Tamendarova
Tackling Extreme Drinking in Young People: Feasible Interventions. Kilmer
Larimer
Case Study: United States: Drinking Among Sorority and Fraternity Students. Martinic
Measham
Afterword. Annex 1: Procedures for Focus Groups on Extreme Drinking. Annex 2: Guiding Questions for Focus Groups. Index.