Adrian Barton

Illicit Drugs (eBook, ePUB)

Use and Control

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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: drug related crime, dependency and 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
• drugs, crime and trends in drug policy.

Drawing information from wide-ranging sources, Adrian Barton illuminates the complex nature and broad impact illicit drug use carries in its wake and provides an overview of the contemporary state of the drug 'scene'. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers working in the area of drugs and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134461127
• Artikelnr.: 38256918

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

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1. Preface and acknowledgements 2. British society and illicit drug use: historical perspectives 3. Measuring the 'problem': drug use in contemporary Britain 4. The British State's legal and medical responses to illicit drug use 5. Illicit drug use: class, gender and ethnicity 6. Illicit drugs: growth and production 7. The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution 8. Illicit drugs: markets and market focus 9. Illicit drugs: paying for the goods and assessing the costs 10. Policing the problem: current trends in U.K. drug policy 11. Comparing British drug policy