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

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Carstairs is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction 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 Treatment Conclusion APPENDIX NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Carstairs
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2006
• EAN: 9780802093721
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9372-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Gender History; Studies in Gender and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology