Cocaine and Crack Supply and Use
The recent surge in the use of crack/cocaine in Britain has rightly been a cause for concern. In this book, the first to be written on the subject in Britain for many years, Philip Bean has brought together some of the most respected authorities on the su
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Cocaine and Crack Supply and Use Edited by
Philip Bean Reader in Criminology and Director, the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Loughborough
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St. Martin's Press
© Philip Bean 1993
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ISBN 978-1-349-22773-0 (eBook) ISBN 978-0-333-58681-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22773-0
First published in the United States of America 1993 by Scholarly and Reference Division, ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., 175 Fifth A venue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-08939-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cocaine and crack: supply and use I edited by Philip Bean. p. em. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-312-08939-9 I. Cocaine habit-Great Britain. 2. Crack (Drug)-Great Britain. 3. Drug abuse-Great Britain. I. Bean, Philip. HV5840.G7C6 1993 92-25573 362.29'8'0941--dc20 CIP
Contents Notes on the Contributors
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Cocaine and Crack: An Introduction Philip Bean
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1 Where Does All the Snow Go? The Prevalence and Pattern of Cocaine and Crack Use in Britain Harry Shapiro 2
Cocaine and Crack within the 'British System': A History of Control H. B. Spear and Joy Mott
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3 Cocaine and Crack: The Promotion of an Epidemic Philip Bean
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4 'A Very Greedy Sort of Drug': Portraits of Scottish Cocaine and Crack Users Jason Ditton
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Cocaine in Context: Findings from a South London Inner-City Drug Survey Geoffrey Pearson, Heidi Safia Mirza and Stewart Phillips
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6 Civil Rights and Civil Liberties surrounding the Use of Cocaine and Crack Jane Goodsir
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7 Treatment of Cocaine Abuse: Exploring the Condition and Selecting the Response John Strang, Michael Farrell and Sujata Unnithan
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Index
173
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Notes on the Contributors Philip Bean is Reader in Criminology and Director of the Midlands
Centre of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Loughborough. Prior to that he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy, University of Nottingham.
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