Cultures of Cannabis Control

An International Comparison of Policy Making
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1496-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

From the local to the global, the governance of illegal drug use is becoming increasingly fragmented. In some contexts, prohibitive regimes are being transformed or replaced, while in others there are renewed commitments to criminalized control. But what gives rise to convergence and divergence in processes of policy making, both across different countries as well as within them?

Based upon empirical qualitative research with ‘elite’ insiders, David Brewster explores a diverse range of cannabis policy approaches across the globe. His original analysis reveals the factors which facilitate or hinder punitive or liberalising tendencies in cannabis policy processes, concluding with future directions for policy making and comparative criminology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brewster, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction;

2. Cannabis Policy in Global Perspective

3. Socio-Political Change and Cannabis Control

4. Problematising Cannabis

5. The ‘Primeval Soup’ of Policy Proposals

6. The Political Environment and Windows of Opportunity

7. Beyond the National: Policy Negotiation, Resistance and Subversion

8. Cultures of Cannabis Control;

9. Conclusions and Future Directions

Über Autor(innen)

David Brewster is Lecturer at Kanazawa College of Art and Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Hong Kong.