Ebook: Drug Policy: History, Theory and Consequences (examples from Denmark and USA)

Front Matter; Front Cover; Dedication Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Danish drug policy -- history, theory, and the international framework; Danish drug policy; Harm reduction; Denmark and the international drug control system; New networks of drug policy development and delivery; Drug policy as governance; Drug policy as practice; Contributions of this volume; Notes; Part I. Drug policy in institutional settings; Caught in-between: Dilemma management at a hostel for the homeless.;Drug policy has spread into new areas of society and new players are now engaged in this policy. This leads to the question: How can we understand and explain the increasingly complex puzzle that we call drug policy? A very wide range of drug policies are implemented in contemporary societies - not only by governments, but also by local communities, organisations, public institutions, private enterprises, sports clubs etc., with consequences for drug users, citizens and society in general. In this book, anthropologists, criminologists and sociologists analyse different aspects of drug policy.