Illicit Drugs: Use and Control

ISBN-13: 9780415281720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str.

Adrian Barton; Adrian Barton;Barton Adrian

Opis

Illicit drugs and their use are now, more than ever, a dominant concern of politicians, policy-makers and the general public. Often, our understandings of the drug problem tend to be uni-dimensional and based around particular areas of risk: risk of drug related crime, risk of dependency, risk of ill-health. This book moves beyond this single-issue approach and locates illicit drug use in its wider context, with chapters on: the history of illicit drug use; measuring the problem; legal and medical responses to illicit drug use; the illicit drugs market; and drugs, crime and trends in drug policy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. An Historical Overview of the Social Construction of the British 'Drug Problem' 3. Measuring the 'Problem': Drug use in contemporary Britain 4. The British State's Legal and Medical Responses to Illicit Drug Use 5. Illicit Drugs: Growth and production 6. Illicit Drugs: Markets and market forces 7. Illicit Drugs: Paying for the Goods and Assessing the Costs 8. 'Forget the Myth We're Desperados Standing on Street Corners. This is a Demand Led Market' 9. 'Let's Get Real': Contemporary directions in UK drug policy 10. British Drug Policy in a European Context

O autorze

Adrian Barton is a Lecturer in Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Plymouth.