Nigel South 
Drugs [EPUB ebook] 
Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life

This authoritative overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of `normalization′ of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; `drugs′ and `users′ as `other′ or `dangerous′; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images of `race′ and drugs; medical responses to drugs; policing strategies and controlling drug users; drug control and sport; and the question of prohibition versus liberalization.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION – Nigel South

Debating Drugs and Everyday Life

Normalization, Prohibition and ′Otherness′

PART TWO: CULTURES: FORMS AND REPRESENTATIONS

Dances with Drugs – Harry Shapiro

Pop Music, Drugs and Youth Culture

Drugs and Culture – Sheila Henderson

The Question of Gender

White Lines – Karim Murji

Culture, `Race′ and Drugs

PART THREE: CONTROLS: POLICY, POLICING AND PROHIBITION

Medicine, Custom or Moral Fibre – Susanne Mac Gregor

Policy Responses to Drug Misuse

Drugs and Policing in Europe – Nicholas Dorn and Maggy Lee

From Low Streets to High Places

Controlling Drugs in Sport – Ross Coomber

Contradictions and Complexity

Drugs as a Password and the Law as a Drug – Vincenzo Ruggiero

Discussing the Legalization of Illicit Substances

PART FOUR: CONCLUSION

Taking Tea with Noel – Michael Shiner and Tim Newburn

The Place and Meaning of Drug Use in Everyday Life

Über den Autor

Nigel South is a Reader in sociology at the University of essex. He has been a prolific and penetrating contributor to the debate on drugs and drug-users.
CONTRIBUTORS

Ross Coomber University of Greenwich
Nicholas Dorn Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence
Sheila Henderson
Maggy Lee University of Essex
Susanne Mac Gregor Middlesex University
Karim Murji Roehampton Institute, London
Tim Newburn University of London
Vincenzo Ruggiero University of London
Harry Shapiro Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence
Michael Shiner University of London
Nigel South University of Essex