Drug use and social change : the distortion of history

Author(s)

• Shiner, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Drug use and social change : the distortion of history

Michael Shiner

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BB02312322
• ISBN:
  • 9780230222724
• LCCN: 2009281306
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 238 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 362.2930941
  • LCC : HV5840.G7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Drug abuse -- Great Britain -- History
  • LCSH : Drug abuse -- Developed countries -- History
  • LCSH : Drug abuse -- Social aspects -- Great Britain