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Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood: From Protection to Punishment
This book examines how and why drug laws persist in the way that they do, and why particular populations benefit, or suffer, more than others. This biopolitical reading of drug control also provides a more theoretically coherent explanation for the centrality of race to disproportionate regimes of policing and imprisonment.
| Author(s) | By Simon Flacks. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 170 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 26 Sept 2022 |
| Availability | POD |
This book examines how and why drug laws persist in the way that they do, and why particular populations benefit, or suffer, more than others. This biopolitical reading of drug control also provides a more theoretically coherent explanation for the centrality of race to disproportionate regimes of policing and imprisonment.
Introduction 1. Drugs and childhood: A genealogy 2. Drug law reform and the politics of innocence 3. The abject dealer: Criminal sentencing and child harm 4. Mums on drugs: Family justice and child protection 5. Drugs and school discipline
Simon Flacks is Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, University of Westminster, UK.
