Toby Seddon, Lisa Williams, Robert Ralphs

Tough Choices (eBook, ePUB)

Risk, Security and the Criminalization of Drug Policy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the focus on crime and criminal justice in British drugs policy, from why it happened at all to what led policy to unfold in the way that it did. Includes analysis of crucial policy documents and over 200 interviews with key players in the policy development and implementation process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191634239
• Artikelnr.: 38145506

Autorenporträt

Toby Seddon is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of Manchester and a co-founder of the research group ManReg (The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance & Security). He has been involved in drugs research for nearly 20 years and has a particular interest in developing new regulatory perspectives on drug policy. Lisa Williams is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Manchester. Her principal interests are in the area of recreational drug use and she is co-author of the revised edition of the landmark text Illegal Leisure Revisited (Routledge, 2011). Her monograph Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys (Routledge, 2012) examines drug-taking in the context of the life-course. Robert Ralphs is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has diverse research interests, including drug use, youth gangs and youth crime. He is co-author of a forthcoming book based on a major ethnographic study of youth gangs (Youth Gangs in an English City, Routledge).