Synopses & Reviews
Drugs are a part of everyday life and ordinary cultures, no longer hidden from sight, or a taboo topic for debate. Today we are constantly reminded of their dangers by politicians and professionals, the media report on drug-use trends, drug-related crime and the latest drug fashions, while consumer culture is full of images that relate to drugs and their symbolic associations.
Inter-disciplinary in scope and content, Drugs: Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life, presents an overview that lays the foundations for a new approach to drugs and drug use for the new century. Contributors examine and discuss whether a process of normalisation of drugs and drug use is underway; the debate over prohibition versus legalisation; the theme at the root of drug control discourse - drugs and users as 'other' or dangerous; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images of race and drugs; the question of policy and medical responses to drugs; the strategy of policing drug use and controlling drug users; and the topical subject of drug control and sport.
The result is a comprehensive and authoritative perspective on drugs and society today. It will be invaluable reading for students, teachers and researchers in the fields of cultural studies, sociology and criminology.
Synopsis
Interdisciplinary in scope and content, this book presents an overview that lays the foundations for a new approach to drugs and drug use for the new century. It will be invaluable reading for students, teachers and researchers in the fields of cultural studies, sociology and criminology.
Synopsis
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.