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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Adrian Barton |
ISBN: | 9780415492331 0415492335 0415492378 9780415492379 |
OCLC Number: | 645673324 |
Notes: | Previous edition: 2003. |
Description: | pages cm |
Contents: | Preface and acknowledgements -- British society and illicit drug use: historical perspectives -- Measuring the "problem" : drug use in contemporary Britain -- The British state's legal and medical responses to illicit drug use -- Illicit drug use : class, gender and ethnicity -- Illicit drugs : growth and production -- The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution -- Illicit drugs : markets and market focus -- Illicit drugs : paying for the goods and assessing the costs -- Policing the problem : current trends in u.k. drug policy -- Comparing british drug policy. |
Responsibility: | Adrian Barton. |
Abstract:
This 2nd edition of the popular 'Illicit Drugs' provides a timely, up-to-date discussion of the key issues raised in the first edition, whilst also providing new chapters that address : class, gender and race ; the geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution ; and Britain's drug use within a global context.
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