Tough Choices: Risk, Security and the Criminalization of Drug Policy
Author:   Toby Seddon (School of Law, University of Manchester) ,  Lisa Williams (School of Law, University of Manchester) ,  Robert Ralphs (Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   236
Publication Date:   17 May 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Toby Seddon (School of Law, University of Manchester) ,  Lisa Williams (School of Law, University of Manchester) ,  Robert Ralphs (Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.416kg
ISBN:  

9780199697236


ISBN 10:   019969723
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   17 May 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Introduction: Drugs, Crime and Criminal Justice 2: Risk, Security and the Criminal Justice Turn 3: The Politics of Drug Policy-Making 4: Police Custody: A Risk Filtering Machine 5: Criminal Courts: A Risk Management System 6: Drugs Work / Knowledge Work 7: The Impact of the Criminal Justice Turn 8: Conclusions: Reimagining Risk and Security

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Toby Seddon is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of Manchester and a co-founder of the research group ManReg (The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance & Security). He has been involved in drugs research for nearly 20 years and has a particular interest in developing new regulatory perspectives on drug policy. Lisa Williams is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Manchester. Her principal interests are in the area of recreational drug use and she is co-author of the revised edition of the landmark text Illegal Leisure Revisited (Routledge, 2011). Her monograph Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys (Routledge, 2012) examines drug-taking in the context of the life-course. Robert Ralphs is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has diverse research interests, including drug use, youth gangs and youth crime. He is co-author of a forthcoming book based on a major ethnographic study of youth gangs (Youth Gangs in an English City, Routledge).

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