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Rethinking Drug Laws: Theory, History, Politics
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.
| Author(s) | By Toby Seddon (Professor of Social Science, Professor of Social Science, University College London). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 224 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 27 Jul 2023 |
| Availability | Available |
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.
1: Introduction: The 'drug question' Part I: Theory 2: Exchangespace 3: Time and Exchangespace Part II: History 4: China and the Opium Wars 5: The Birth of Prohibition Part III: Politics 6: The Politics of Drug Control 7: Democratic Politics and
Toby Seddon is Professor of Social Science at University College London and is currently Head of the UCL Social Research Institute. He has previously held academic positions at the University of Manchester and University of Leeds. He has been researching,
