{"product_id":"drugs-crime-and-public-health-alex-stevens-9780415491044","title":"Drugs, Crime and Public Health: The Political Economy of Drug Policy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDrugs, Crime and Public Health\u003c\/em\u003e provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it discusses theoretical perspectives and provides new empirical evidence which challenges prevalent ways of thinking about illicit drugs. It argues that problematic drug use can only be understood in the social context in which it takes place, a context which it shares with other problems of crime and public health. The book demonstrates the social and spatial overlap of these problems, examining the focus of contemporary drug policy on crime reduction. This focus, Alex Stevens contends, has made it less, rather than more, likely that long-term solutions will be produced for drugs, crime and health inequalities. And he concludes, through examining competing visions for the future of drug policy, with an argument for social solutions to these social problems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Stevens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415491045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415491044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge Cavendish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2011 pg. 135","brand":"Alex Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064926843135,"sku":"9780415491044","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2471aa3c-663c-4cff-b408-6ab2f89abb67.jpg?v=1768671970","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/drugs-crime-and-public-health-alex-stevens-9780415491044","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}