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.
Table of Content
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
About the author
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
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