Jailed for Possession - Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961

Jailed for Possession is the first social history of drug use in Canada and provides a careful examination of drug users and their regulators including doctors, social workers, and police officers.

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSIntroduction The Drug Panic of the 1920s and the Drive for Chinese Exclusion 'Hop Heads': The Effects of Criminalization, 1920--1945 'Hypes': Using and Quitting, 1945--1961 'After a Short Struggle': Police Officers and Drug Users Proscribing Prescribing: Doctors, Drug Users, and the Division of Narcotic Control Turning Rounders into Square Johns: Drug Users and the John Howard Society Free Drugs or Prison for Life? Changing Approaches to TreatmentConclusionAPPENDIX NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

About the author

Catherine Carstairs is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph.

Summary

Jailed for Possession is the first social history of drug use in Canada and provides a careful examination of drug users and their regulators including doctors, social workers, and police officers.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Carstairs
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2006
• EAN: 9780802090294
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9029-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Gender History; Studies in Gender History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology