Shiner Drug Use and Social Change

The Distortion of History
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-24443-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection

This book locates the rise of illicit drug use within the historical development of late industrial society and challenges the prevailing view. Highlighting key areas of continuity and the on-going value of classic criminological theory, it is argued that recent trends do not constitute the radical departure that is often supposed.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shiner, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures and tables Acknowledgements Introduction The Sociology of Drug Use A Social Classification of Drug Use The Folk Devil Next Door Lifestyle, Consumption and Subterranean Play Just a Phase? Drug Use and Social Change Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL SHINER is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology at the London School of Economics, UK. His main areas of interest are young people, drugs and alcohol and he is co-author of and (both with Tim Newburn).