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

This book, first published in 1984, explores the way in which these diverse sectors coordinate the control of deviance in a complex society.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The emergence of the 'drug problem': social change versus social control; 2. Control systems from exchange in networks: towards a synthesis of system and action theory; 3. Stratification in information and referral exchange; 4. Exchange relationships in social-control system; 5. The social system: boundary maintenance and hierarchical control; 6. Summary: the control system in context; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: James R. Beniger, James Ralph Beniger
• Assisted by: Ernest Q. Campbell (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.01.2013
• EAN: 9780521276801
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27680-1
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 393 g
• Series: Themes in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories