Crime, Drugs and Social Theory: A Phenomenological Approach - Rilegato

Allen, Chris

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ISBN 10: 0754647420 ISBN 13: 9780754647423

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

Riassunto

Do criminal cultures generate drug use? Crime, Drugs and Social Theory critiques conventional academic and policy thinking concerning the relationship between urban deprivation, crime and drug use. Chris Allen outlines an innovative constructionist phenomenological perspective to explore these relationships in a new light. He discusses how people living in deprived urban areas develop ’natural attitudes’ towards activities, such as crime and drug use, that are prevalent in the social worlds they inhabit, and shows that this produces forms of articulation such as ’I don’t know why I take drugs’, ’I just take them’ and ’drugs come naturally to me’. He then draws on his constructionist phenomenology to help understand the ’natural attitude’ towards crime and drugs that emerge from conditions of urban deprivation, as well as the non-reasoned forms of articulation that emerge from this attitude. The book argues that understanding the conditions in which drug users deviate from their ’natural attitude’ can help effective intervention in the lives of drug users.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Chris Allen is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Chris is the author of 30 articles in peer-reviewed social science journals since 1997 as well as 22 research reports, 20 articles in the national and professional media and 2 commercially published books.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0754647420
• ISBN 13: 9780754647423
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 160