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A History of Drugs
Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age
Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as ‘dangerous drugs’, to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others – from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call ‘medicines’ – are seen and regulated very differently? A History of Drugs traces a...
Published July 11th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Punishment and Madness
Governing Prisoners with Mental Health Problems
The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. The wider context and backdrop to the book is the shift to 'late modernity', which, since the 1970s has seen massive structural change in most Western societies...
Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge-Cavendish