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  • A Very Greedy Drug

    Cocaine in Context

    by Jason Ditton, Richard Hammersley ...
    First Published in 1997. This book sketches the recent history of the panic over cocaine in Britain, before reporting in-depth research on more than a hundred users in Scotland. This group contained all types of users, from casual users to heavy users who had cut down without problems, to people with multiple drug problems. The book considers why some people can give up cocaine and others become ... Read more

    $57.95 USD

  • Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation

    by Jason Ditton, Richard Hammersley, Furzana Khan ...
    This book about ecstacy users' lives is based on one of the biggest government-funded projects ever undertaken and gives voice to the chemical generation for the first time. In the UK, where the study was conducted, over fifty per cent of young people use drugs, a quarter of them regularly. The people in this book are ordinary, decent, family-loving people, with normal lives, normal problems and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Fear of Crime

    Edited by Jason Ditton, Stephen Farrall ...
    Series series The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology
    Studies of the fear of crime have constituted what is undeniably the fastest growing research area within criminology in the last decade and this shows no sign of diminishing. The editors have a distinguished record of innovative research in the field, being responsible for a number of seminal empirical and theoretical articles. In this volume, they have collected together and for the first time, ... Read more

    $420.00 USD

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  • Great Debates in Criminology

    by Chad Posick, Michael Rocque ...
    This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Ice: How We Will Get Through Australia's Methamphetamine Crisis

    by Matt Noffs ...
    'The so-called war on drugs has been a colossal failure, and this book offers further proof that we must treat drug use as a public health issue, not as a crime' Sir Richard BransonThis landmark book, from Matt Noffs and his team at the Noffs Foundation, is a much-needed voice of reason in the national conversation around the drug ice. What is ice? What does it do to the brain? What can we learn ... Read more

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  • Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis

    by Clif Flynn ...
    Until the last decade of the twentieth century, the abusive or cruel treatment of animals had received virtually no attention among academicians. Since then, however, empirical studies of animal abuse, and its relation to other forms of violence toward humans, have increased not only in number but in quality and stature. Sociologists, criminologists, social workers, psychologists, legal scholars, ... Read more

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    by Maia Szalavitz ...
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  • Hogg Social Psychology

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  • Psychology for Inclusive Education

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  • Undoing Drugs

    How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction

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    Edited by Richard Wortley, Michael Townsley ...
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