Trafficking in Drug Users: Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance

by James Ralph Beniger

Book Overview

Control of illegal drug use and abuse requires an elaborate network of organizations and professions: medical, legal, political, educational, and welfare. This book, first published in 1984, explores the way in which these diverse sectors coordinate the control of deviance in a complex society and how they respond to a sudden widespread increase in deviance spanning many institutional and professional domains. The latter of these concerns, James Beniger...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521276802
• ISBN13: 9780521276801
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"