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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shiner, M

Titel

Drug Use and Social Change : The Distortion of History [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2009

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Sociology of Drug Use; 3 A Social Classification of Drug Use; 4 The Folk Devil Next Door; 5 Consumption and Subterranean Play; 6 Just a Phase?; 7 Drug Use and Social Change; Technical Appendix; Notes; References; Index
• 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.
• English