Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous People and Dangerous Places

Synopsis

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as ‘dangerous’ and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat. Taking a historical and cross-national perspective, it explores how such groups and spaces are defined and bounded as well as the processes by which they come to be seen as ‘risky’. It discusses how issues of perceived danger highlight questions of control and the management of behaviours, people and environments, and it pays attention to the way in which sanctions and regulations have been implemented in a variety of often inconsistent ways that frequently impact differently on different sections of the population. Bringing together a range of case studies drawn from different countries and across different periods of time, the chapters collected here illustrate issues of marginalisation, stigmatisation, human rights and social expectations. It is of interest to a diverse audience of historians, philosophers, human geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and criminologists interested in substance use and misuse, deviance, risk and power among other topics.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781351033480

Related ISBNs:

9781351033503, 9781138491243, 9781138491243

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/09/20

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Susanne MacGregor and Betsy Thom

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Susanne MacGregor

Edited by:

Betsy Thom