Drugs: Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life

179 Pages·1999·10.947 MB·English

by  Nigel South

DRUGS

D R U GS
Cultures, Controls
and Everyday Life
edited by
NIGEL SOUTH
SAGE Publications
London · Thousand Oaks · New Delhi
Editorial selection and Chapter 1 © Nigel South 1999
Chapter 2 © Harry Shapiro 1999
Chapter 3 © SheUa Henderson 1999
Chapter 4 © Karim Muiji 1999
Chapter 5 © Susanne MacGregor 1999
Chapter 6 © Nicholas Dom and Maggy Lee 1999
Chapter 7 © Ross Coomber 1999
Chapter 8 © Vincenzo Ruggiero 1999
Chapter 9 © Michael Shiner and Tim Newbum 1999
First published 1999
Reprinted 2000
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CONTENTS
Notes on contributors ix
INTRODUOTON
1 Debating Drugs and Everyday Life: Normalisation,
Prohibition and Otherness' 1
Nigel South
CULTURES: FORMS AND REPRESENTATON S
2 Dances with Drugs: Pop Music, Drugs and Youth
Culture 17
Harry Shapiro
3 Drugs and Culture: the Question of Gender 36
Sheik Henderson
4 White Lines: Culture, 'Race' and Drugs 49
Karim Murji
CONTROLS: POLICY, POLICING AND PROHIBITION
5 Medicine, Custom or Moral Fibre: Policy Responses
to Drug Misuse 67
Susanne MacGregor
6 Drugs and Policing in Europe: from Low Streets
to High Places 86
Nicholas Dorn and Maggy Lee
7 Controlling Drugs in Sport: Contradictions and
Complexity 103
Ross Coomber
viii CONTENTS
8 Drugs as a Password and the Law as a Drug:
Discussing the Legalisation of Illicit Substances 123
Vincenzo Ruggiero
CONCLUSION
9 Taking Tea with Noel: the Place and Meaning of
Drug Use in Everyday Life 139
Michael Shiner and Tim Newbum
Index 160
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Ross Coomber is Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University of
Greenwich, London. Recent publications have centred upon concerns
about the adulteration of illicit drugs, the activities of drug dealers, the
rationality of drug control policies and media representations of drugs
and drug users. His most recent, edited, book is The Control of Drugs and
Drug Users: Reason or Reaction (1998).
Nicholas Dom has published on the development of the European
Union's policies on crime in the broader contexts of policies on the
single market and on justice and home affairs. His publications include
European Drug Policies and Enforcement (co-edited with Jepsen and
Savona, 1996), 'Beyond pillars and passerelle debates: the EU's emerging
crime prevention space' (with White, L·gal Issues of European Integration,
1997); and Regulating European Drug Problems: Administrative Measures
and Civil Law in the Control of Drug Trafficking, Nuisance and Use (1998).
Dr Dom is Director of Research and Development at ISDD, the Institute
for the Study of Drug Dependence. ISDD is Britain's drug information
service and the UK 'focal point' for the European Monitoring Centre
on Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon. E-mail: nicholas@isdd,co.uk or
[email protected]
Sheila Henderson has been involved in youth policy- and practice-
related research for the last twelve years, focusing particularly on gender,
sexuality and drug issues. She has run an independent research con-
sultancy for the last seven years, conducting contract research for
government departments, local and national policy bodies and charities
in many parts of Britain. She has published widely on social and cultural
aspects of illegal drug use and has recently conducted studies which
explore rural/urban contrasts in youth lifestyles. Her most recent key
publications are Working With Young People in Rural Areas: An Evaluation
Report (London, Home Office Drugs Prevention Initiative, 1998), Ecstasy:
Case Unsolved (1997),' "E" types and dance divas: some implications for
research and prevention', in T. Rhodes and R. H2irtnoll (eds), HIV
Prevention in the Community: Perspectives on Individual, Community and