Crack Cocaine Users: High Society and Low Life in South London

ISBN-13: 9780415671330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 214 str.

Daniel Briggs

Opis

Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the worst retention rate in prison drug programmes and community drug agencies. This book is about their addictions and the realities of their lives.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. How Did it Get to This?  3. Rivertown: The Research Context   4. Becoming a Crack Cocaine User  5. The Social Organisation of the Crack Scene  6. Crack Use and Social Control  7. The Management of Self and Others  8. Ways Out or Ways Down?  9. Discussion and Conclusion  10. Epilogue: The Field Lives On

O autorze

Daniel Briggs is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of East London. He works with a range of social groups – from the most vulnerable to the most dangerous to the most misunderstood. His work takes him inside prisons, crack houses, mental health institutions, asylum seeker institutions, hostels, care homes and hospices, and homeless services. His research interests include social exclusion, culture and deviance, and late modern identities. He has recently undertaken work in Spain on gypsies and youth risk behaviours while on holiday and is currently undertaking research on youth gangs.