Drug Use and Social Change: The Distortion of History

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 14
Out with the old?......Page 15
Thinking about social change......Page 17
The particular and the general......Page 19
Structure of the book......Page 25
2 The Sociology of Drug Use......Page 27
The 'new' deviancy theories......Page 28
The 'new' deviancy theories and the sociology of drug use......Page 33
From scepticism to normalisation......Page 40
Theorising change and explaining normalisation......Page 44
A critique of the normalisation thesis......Page 47
Reactions to the normalisation 'debate'......Page 53
Beyond academia......Page 55
Conclusion......Page 57
3 A Social Classification of Drug Use......Page 59
Legal classification in context......Page 60
Social dimensions of drug use......Page 66
Conclusion......Page 80
4 The Folk Devil Next Door......Page 83
Social class......Page 84
Income......Page 86
Sex......Page 88
Ethnicity and religion......Page 91
Region and neighbourhood......Page 99
Social deprivation and risk factors......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 106
5 Consumption and Subterranean Play......Page 108
The rise of British youth culture......Page 109
Drugs, consumption and subterranean play......Page 111
Youth lifestyles......Page 115
Drug use as lifestyle......Page 121
Conclusion......Page 132
6 Just a Phase?......Page 135
Life-course criminology......Page 136
Understanding early adult transitions......Page 139
Surveying early adult transitions......Page 143
Drug use and early adult transitions......Page 146
The gendered nature of early adult transitions......Page 162
Early adult transitions and patterns of consumption......Page 164
Conclusion......Page 168
7 Drug Use and Social Change......Page 171
Drug use in late industrial societies......Page 172
Continuity within change......Page 174
The need for new perspectives?......Page 176
Drug policy and the 'new' deviancy critique......Page 179
Technical Appendix......Page 183
Notes......Page 222
References......Page 230
B......Page 245
D......Page 246
H......Page 247
M......Page 248
P......Page 249
S......Page 250
Z......Page 251