"A crucial text for whetting the academic appetite of those studying criminology at university. The comprehensive engagement with key crime and deviance debates and issues make this a perfect springboard for launching into the complex, diverse and exciting realm of researching criminology." (Dr Ruth[...]
How do we understand drug use? How are drugs related to our social worlds? How should drug use be understood, approached and dealt with? Insightful and illuminating, this book successfully discusses drugs in social contexts. In an elegant manner, the authors bring together their different theoretica[...]
Suitable for those working with questions of drug use; from students in a wide variety of fields (sociology, social work, youth studies) to practitioners such as nurses, health workers and social workers, this title offers a critical account on psychoactive drugs in our society (reputation, history,[...]