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Drugs, Crime and Public Health - The Political Economy of Drug Policy (Paperback)
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Drugs, Crime and Public Health - The Political Economy of Drug Policy (Paperback)
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Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical
discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative
approach -- centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary
data gathered from the USA and other countries -- it discusses
theoretical perspectives and provides new empirical evidence which
challenges prevalent ways of thinking about illicit drugs. It
argues that problematic drug use can only be understood in the
social context in which it takes place, a context which it shares
with other problems of crime and public health. The book
demonstrates the social and spatial overlap of these problems,
examining the focus of contemporary drug policy on crime reduction.
This focus, contends Alex Stevens, has made it less, rather than
more, likely that long-term solutions will be produced for drugs,
crime and health inequalities. Stevens concludes, through examining
competing visions for the future of drug policy, with an argument
for social solutions to these social problems.
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