Cultures of Cannabis Control: An International Comparison of Policy Making

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Cultures of Cannabis Control: An International Comparison of Policy Making
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Table of contents
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About the Author
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
	Comparative criminology and control culture
	Cannabis control culture and researching policy-making processes
	Outline of the book
2 Cannabis Policy in Global Perspective
	Introduction
	Governing cannabis at international level
	Governing cannabis at national and subnational levels
		Prohibition
		Depenalization (de facto)
		Decriminalization (de jure)
		Legal regulation
	Summary
3 Sociopolitical Change and Cannabis Control
	Introduction
	Cannabis control and the penal-welfare state
		Political culture and cannabis control in England & Wales
		Political culture and cannabis control in the Netherlands
		Summary: cannabis control and the penal-welfare state
	Convergence around a common culture of control?
		Political culture and cannabis control in England & Wales
		Political culture and cannabis control in the Netherlands
		Summary: convergence around a common culture of control?
	Summary
4 Problematizing Cannabis
	Introduction
	England & Wales: political insecurity and the emergence of a threat
		Cannabis as a threat to social order
		Cannabis as a threat to health
		Cannabis as a threat to moral order
	The Netherlands: coming to terms with unintended, unforeseen and uncontrolled consequences
		Cannabis as a threat to social order
		Cannabis as a threat to health
		Cannabis as a threat to moral order
		Cannabis policy as a threat to order (again) and liberty
	Problematizations of cannabis in global perspective
		Canada
		Jamaica
	Summary
5 The ‘Primeval Soup’ of Policy Proposals
	Introduction
	Returning cannabis to its ‘rightful position’ in England & Wales
		Political feasibility
		Research and expertise
		Technical feasibility
	Finding the ‘golden angling’ in the Netherlands
		Political feasibility
		Research and expertise
		Technical feasibility
	The primeval soup in global perspective
		Australia
		Spain
	Summary
6 The Political Environment and Windows of Opportunity
	Introduction
	England & Wales: an inevitable policy reversal?
		Changes in administration
		The national mood
		Organized political forces
	The Netherlands: an uncomfortable middle ground
		Changes in administration
		The national mood
		Organized political forces
	The political environment in global perspective
		Uruguay
		New Zealand
	Summary
7 Beyond the National: Policy Negotiation, Resistance and Subversion
	Introduction
	A muted dragon? Reclassification in Wales
		Problem representation
		Policy negotiation
	‘Policy prevention’: challenging policy in Utrecht
		Policy representation
		Policy negotiation
	The role of the subnational in policy negotiation in global perspective
		United States
		Japan
	Summary
8 Cultures of Cannabis Control
	Introduction
	Policy processes in cannabis control
	Political institutions and relations of power
		National governing relations
		Subnational governing relations
	Summary
9 Conclusions and Future Directions
	Introduction
	Cultures of control, cannabis policy making and criminology
	Reflections and future directions in comparative criminology
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
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