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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Barton, Adrian. Illicit drugs. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011 (DLC) 2010043373 (OCoLC)430052246 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adrian Barton |
ISBN: | 9780203879917 0203879910 9781134007257 1134007256 9781134007202 1134007205 9781134007240 1134007248 |
OCLC Number: | 730501933 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 195 pages) : illustrations |
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: | by Adrian Barton. |
Abstract:
The second edition of the popular Illicit Drugs: Use and Control provides a timely, up-to-date discussion of the key issues raised in the first edition, whilst also providing new chapters which address: Class, gender and race, The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution, Britain's drug use within a global context. This accessible book, with its inclusion of new pedagogical features, will be essential reading for students and researchers working in the area of drugs and society.
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