Drug Use and Social Change The Distortion of History

by Shiner, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780230222724
• ISBN10: 0230222722
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

MICHAEL SHINER is Senior Lecturer in social policy and criminology at the London School of Economics, UK. His main areas of interest are young people, drugs and alcohol and he is author of Teenage Kicks? Young People and Alcohol and Dealing with Disaffection: Young People, Mentoring and Social Inclusion (both with Tim Newburn).

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. iX
Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Out with the old?	p. 2
Thinking about social change	p. 4
The particular and the general	p. 6
Structure of the book	p. 12
The Sociology of Drug Use	p. 14
The 'new' deviancy theories	p. 15
The 'new' deviancy theories and the sociology of drug use	p. 20
From scepticism to normalisation	p. 27
Theorising change and explaining normalisation	p. 31
A critique of the normalisation thesis	p. 34
Reactions to the normalisation 'debate'	p. 40
Beyond academia	p. 42
Conclusion	p. 44
A Social Classification of Drug Use	p. 46
Legal classification in context	p. 47
Social dimensions of drug use	p. 53
Conclusion	p. 67
The Folk Devil Next Door	p. 70
Social class	p. 71
Income	p. 73
Sex	p. 75
Ethnicity and religion	p. 78
Region and neighbourhood	p. 86
Social deprivation and risk factors	p. 89
Conclusion	p. 93
Consumption and Subterranean Play	p. 95
The rise of British youth culture	p. 96
Drugs, consumption and subterranean play	p. 98
Youth lifestyles	p. 102
Drug use as lifestyle	p. 108
Conclusion	p. 120
Just a Phase?	p. 122
Life-course criminology	p. 122
Understanding early adult transitions	p. 126
Surveying early adult transitions	p. 130
Drug use and early adult transitions	p. 133
The gendered nature of early adult transitions	p. 149
Early adult transitions and patterns of consumption	p. 151
Conclusion	p. 155
Drug Use and Social Change	p. 158
Drug use in late industrial societies	p. 159
Continuity within change	p. 161
The need for new perspectives?	p. 163
Drug policy and the 'new' deviancy critique	p. 166
Technical Appendix	p. 170
Notes	p. 209
References	p. 217
Index	p. 232
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