Trafficking in Drug Users: Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)

Beniger, James Ralph

ISBN 10: 0521276802 / ISBN 13: 9780521276801

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1984

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Synopsis:

Control of illegal drug use and abuse requires an elaborate network of organizations and professions: medical, legal, political, educational, and welfare. This book, first published in 1984, explores the way in which these diverse sectors coordinate the control of deviance in a complex society and how they respond to a sudden widespread increase in deviance spanning many institutional and professional domains. The latter of these concerns, James Beniger argues, affords us a unique insight into the more general question of societal control. He takes as an example of this phenomenon the dramatic appearance of the 'drug problem' in America in the Vietnam war era of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Exploiting this as an approximation of an experimentally induced disruption of society, Professor Beniger examines its impact on the interorganizational and professional networks that together constitute a system for the control of a social deviance.

Book Description: Control of illegal drug use and abuse requires an elaborate network of organizations and professions: medical, legal, political, educational, and welfare. This book, first published in 1984, explores the way in which these diverse sectors coordinate the control of deviance in a complex society.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Trafficking in Drug Users: Professional ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New