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Drugs, Crime and Public Health - The Political Economy of Drug Policy (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R4,627
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Drugs, Crime and Public Health - The Political Economy of Drug Policy (Hardcover, New): Alex Stevens

Drugs, Crime and Public Health - The Political Economy of Drug Policy (Hardcover, New)

Alex Stevens

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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, Alex Stevens contends, has made it less, rather than more, likely that long-term solutions will be produced for drugs, crime and health inequalities. And he 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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Imprint: Routledge-Cavendish
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2010
First published: 2009
Authors: Alex Stevens
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 202
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-49104-4
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General
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LSN: 0-415-49104-5
Barcode: 9780415491044

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