Drug Use and Social Change: The Distortion of History

by Dr Michael Shiner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $121.49

  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.