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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    07 May 2010
    24 February 1984
    ISBN:
    9780511598326
    9780521257534
    9780521276801
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511598326
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.49kg, 238 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.34kg, 238 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Criminology, Organisational Sociology, Sociology
    Series:
    American Sociological Association Rose Monographs
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    Subjects:
    Criminology, Organisational Sociology, Sociology
    Series:
    American Sociological Association Rose Monographs
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    Control of illegal drug use and abuse requires an elaborate network of organizations and professions: medical, legal, political, educational, and welfare. This book, first published in 1984, explores the way in which these diverse sectors coordinate the control of deviance in a complex society and how they respond to a sudden widespread increase in deviance spanning many institutional and professional domains. The latter of these concerns, James Beniger argues, affords us a unique insight into the more general question of societal control. He takes as an example of this phenomenon the dramatic appearance of the 'drug problem' in America in the Vietnam war era of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Exploiting this as an approximation of an experimentally induced disruption of society, Professor Beniger examines its impact on the interorganizational and professional networks that together constitute a system for the control of a social deviance.

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