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Rethinking Drug Laws develops new theoretical and conceptual tools for understanding how drug control functions. It presents original archival research on the origins of drug prohibition, and explains ways that we can develop a better 'politics of drugs' that can reanimate drug law reform.

Examines the focus on crime and criminal justice in British drugs policy, from why it happened at all to what led policy to unfold in the way that it did. Includes analysis of crucial policy documents and over 200 interviews with key players in the policy development and implementation process.

The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. It draws on primary research carried out by the author, who combines and synthesizes different forms of analysis to create a novel approach to socio-historical research.

A History of Drugs details the history of the relationship between drugs and freedom over the last two hundred years, thus disturbing and unravelling the `naturalness¿ of the `drug question¿, as it traces the multiple and heterogeneous lines of development out of which it has been assembled.

Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as ¿dangerous drugs¿, to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others ¿ from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call ¿medicines¿ ¿ are seen and regulated very differently? A History of Drugs traces a genealogy of the construction and governance of the ¿drug problem¿ over the past 200 years: calling into question some of the most fundamental ideas in this...

An innovative, inter-disciplinary, critical exploration of the relationships between regulatory theory and criminal justice practice and scholarship.