| Description |
1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Series |
Drugs, Crime and Society Ser |
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Drugs, Crime and Society Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Cannabis Criminology: An Introduction -- Introduction -- This Book -- Prohibition and the New Prohibitionists -- Cannabis and Criminology -- Defining Cannabis Criminology -- Criminological Theories and Key Areas of Cannabis Criminology -- Law, Society, and Social Control -- Police and Policing Cannabis -- Race, Ethnicity, and Criminalization -- The Economics of Cannabis -- Cannabis Use and Crime -- Organization of the Book -- Conclusion |
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Notes -- 2 Law, Society, and Social Control -- Introduction -- Theoretical Starting Points -- Demonology -- Labeling Theory -- Conflict Theories -- Key Concepts -- Stigma -- Normalization -- Medicalization -- Cannabis and Research On Law, Society, and Social Control -- Normalization and Cannabis Use -- The Stigma-Normalization Nexus -- Rethinking Moral Panics -- New Directions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Police and Policing Cannabis -- Introduction -- Theoretical Starting Points -- Strain Theory -- Social Control -- Criminal Justice Growth -- Key Concepts -- The War On Drugs |
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Police Militarization -- Predatory Policing -- Cannabis and Research On Police and Policing Cannabis -- War On Cannabis -- Shock and Awe -- Stop and Harass -- New Directions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Race, Ethnicity, and Criminalization -- Introduction -- Theoretical Starting Points -- Biological and Psychological Positivism -- Critical Race Theory -- Restorative Justice -- Key Concepts -- Race as a Social Construction -- Race and Predation -- Race and the Long Shadow of Slavery -- Relevant Research On Race, Ethnicity, and Criminalization -- Cannabis, Racial Disparities, and Injustice |
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The Cost(s) of Cannabis Prohibition -- Race and Reconciliation -- New Directions -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 5 The Economics of Cannabis -- Introduction -- Theoretical Starting Points -- Deterrence -- Routine Activities Theory -- Rational Choice Theory -- Key Concepts -- Alchian-Allen Theorem -- Complexity and Cannabis Markets -- Cannabis and Cost/Benefit Analysis -- Relevant Research On the Economics of Cannabis -- Prohibition and Potency -- Accessing and Differentiating Cannabis Markets -- Cannabis as a Consumer Good: Competing On Price and Quality -- New Directions -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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6 Cannabis Use and Crime -- Introduction -- Theoretical Starting Points -- Social Learning Theories -- Biosocial Theories -- Psychological Theories of Crime -- Key Concepts -- Cannabis as Subculture -- The Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) -- Cannabis Psychosis -- Relevant Research -- Increased Youth Cannabis Use and Crime -- Cannabis and Addiction -- Cannabis and Violence -- New Directions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Cannabis Criminology: Back to the Future -- Introduction -- Three Persistent Problems in Cannabis Criminology -- The New Prohibitionists and Public Criminology |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The New Prohibitionists |
| Subject |
Cannabis -- History
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Cannabis -- Social aspects
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Cannabis -- Government policy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heidt, Jon
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| ISBN |
9781000823080 |
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1000823083 |
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