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Drugs, Crime and Public Health The Political Economy of Drug Policy

Paperback • 2011 • English • 1. edition

Drugs, Crime and Public Health The Political Economy of Drug Policy

By Alex Stevens

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About the book

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it discusses theoretical perspectives and provides new empirical evidence which challenges prevalent ways of thinking about illicit drugs. It argues that problematic drug use can only be understood in the social context in which it takes place, a conte...Show more

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9780415610674

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

2011

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Drugs, Crime and Public Health The Political Economy of Drug Policy

Format

Paperback

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