Drugs are pervasive in our everyday lives across cultures around
the world. At the same time, they present one of the thorniest
problems of twenty-first century policy, connected with concerns
about crime, security, and public health. The global prohibition
system, established a century ago, is widely seen to be failing and
over the last decade alternative approaches have started to
proliferate in some regions of the world, notably the Americas.
Rethinking Drug Laws presents a radical intellectual reappraisal of
how the international drug control system works, where it came
from, and the possibilities for alternative futures. Drawing on an
innovative interdisciplinary approach, the book develops new
theoretical and conceptual tools for understanding how drug control
functions, presents original archival research on the origins of
drug prohibition, and explains ways that we can develop a better
'politics of drugs' that can reanimate drug law reform. Central to
the book is the claim that to move beyond existing ways of seeing
the global drug problem, we need to escape Western-centric
thinking. In the Asian Century, will it be China that becomes the
most significant player in shaping the future of drug policy and
drug control?
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Clarendon Studies in Criminology |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| Authors: |
Toby Seddon
(Professor of Social Science)
|
| Dimensions: |
223 x 145 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-284652-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-284652-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780192846525 |
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