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Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of
children and the young. Yet how has this association come to be so
strong, and why does it have so much explanatory, rhetorical and
political force? The premise for this book is that the relationship
between drugs and childhood merits more exploration beyond simply
pointing out that children and drugs are both 'things we tend to
get worried about'. It asks what is at stake when legislators,
lobbyists and decision-makers revert to claims about children in
order to sustain a given legal or policy position. Beginning with a
genealogy of the relationship between the discursive artefacts of
'drugs' and 'childhood', the book draws on Foucauldian
methodologies to explore how childhood functions as a device in the
biopolitical management of drug use(rs) and supply. In addition to
analysing decriminalisation initiatives and sentencing measures, it
(unusually) reaches beyond the criminal context to consider the
significance of the 'politics of childhood' for law- and
policymaking in the fields of family justice and education. It
concludes by arguing that the currency of childhood and 'youth' is
not reducible to rhetoric; it shapes the discursive entities of
drugs and addiction and is one of the ways in which particular
substances become socially, culturally and politically
intelligible. At the same time, 'drugs' serve as a technology of
child normalisation. The book will be essential reading for
policymakers as well as researchers and students working in the
areas of Criminal Justice, Law, Psychology and Sociology.
Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of
children and the young. Yet how has this association come to be so
strong, and why does it have so much explanatory, rhetorical and
political force? The premise for this book is that the relationship
between drugs and childhood merits more exploration beyond simply
pointing out that children and drugs are both 'things we tend to
get worried about'. It asks what is at stake when legislators,
lobbyists and decision-makers revert to claims about children in
order to sustain a given legal or policy position. Beginning with a
genealogy of the relationship between the discursive artefacts of
'drugs' and 'childhood', the book draws on Foucauldian
methodologies to explore how childhood functions as a device in the
biopolitical management of drug use(rs) and supply. In addition to
analysing decriminalisation initiatives and sentencing measures, it
(unusually) reaches beyond the criminal context to consider the
significance of the 'politics of childhood' for law- and
policymaking in the fields of family justice and education. It
concludes by arguing that the currency of childhood and 'youth' is
not reducible to rhetoric; it shapes the discursive entities of
drugs and addiction and is one of the ways in which particular
substances become socially, culturally and politically
intelligible. At the same time, 'drugs' serve as a technology of
child normalisation. The book will be essential reading for
policymakers as well as researchers and students working in the
areas of Criminal Justice, Law, Psychology and Sociology.
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