Drugs and crime : theories and practices /

Hammersley, Richard.

Drugs and crime : theories and practices / by Richard Hammersley. - Cambridge : Polity, 2008. - xvii, 248 p. ; 23 cm.

1.Constructing the problem of drugs and crime 2.What are drugs? 3.What is crime? 4.Drugs-crime connections 5.Drugs, crime, adolescence and youth 6.Drugs, crime and contemporary society 7.Prevention 8.Treatment of drug dependence 9.The futures of drugs and crime.

In this textbook, Richard Hammersley argues that much current thinking about drugs and crime is simplistic and misguided, because it fails to take into account the complex social and psychological contexts that underpin the relationship between drug or alcohol problems and crime.

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