Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood - From Protection to Punishment

List of contents

Introduction
1. Drugs and childhood: A genealogy
2. Drug law reform and the politics of innocence
3. The abject dealer: Criminal sentencing and child harm
4. Mums on drugs: Family justice and child protection
5. Drugs and school discipline
Conclusion

Summary

This book examines how and why drug laws persist in the way that they do, and why particular populations benefit, or suffer, more than others. This biopolitical reading of drug control also provides a more theoretically coherent explanation for the centrality of race to disproportionate regimes of policing and imprisonment.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Flacks
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367243784
• ISBN: 978-0-367-24378-4
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Public, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Criminal Law / Juvenile Offenders, LAW / Health, LAW / Criminal Law / Sentencing, LAW / Family Law / Divorce & Separation, LAW / Family Law / Children, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Judicial Branch, LAW / Drugs & the Law, Psychotherapy, Health & personal development, Social Work, Systems of law, Politics & government, Mental health services, Social issues & processes, Social, group or collective psychology, Family Law, Criminal or forensic psychology, Legal aspects of criminology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Crime & criminology, Sentencing & punishment, Criminal justice law, International human rights law, Criminology: legal aspects, Mental Health Law, Constitutional & administrative law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Social law and Medical law, Juvenile Criminal Law