Drugs and crime deviant pathways / edited by Serge Brochu, Candido da Agra, and Marie-Marthe Cousineau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brochu, Serge.

Agra, Cândido da.

Cousineau, Marie-Marthe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse and crime.

Criminal behavior.

Physical Description:

xvi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Deviance, Set and Setting

1 The Complex Structures, Processes and Meanings of the Drug/Crime Relationship / Candido da Agra 9

2 The Study of Psychological Self-organization Processes in Deviant Pathways: Contributions of the Biogram Method / Celina Manita, Candido da Agra 33

3 Drug Addiction and Drug Dealing - from Trajectories to Careers: the Status of the Question in Social Sciences in France / Michel Kokoreff, Claude Faugeron 51

4 Ethnographic Space-Time: Culture of Resistance in a 'Dangerous Place' / Luis Fernandes, Tiago Neves 71

Part II Youth, Drug and Delinquency Pathways

5 Developmental Trajectories Leading to Delinquency and Substance Use in Adolescence: Results from Quebec Studies / Rene Carbonneau 85

6 Deviant Trajectories at the Turning Point between Adolescence and Adulthood / Michel Born, Claire Gavray 97

7 Deviant Youth Trajectories: Adoption, Progression and Regression of Deviant Lifestyles / Natacha Brunelle, Marie-Marthe Cousineau, Serge Brochu 115

Part III Adult, Drug and Crime Pathways

8 Drug/Crime Pathways Among Cocaine Users / Isabelle Parent, Serge Brochu 139

9 Flexing Crack in Toronto: a Deviant Pathway for Poor, Homeless Drug Users / Patricia G. Erickson, Jennifer Butters, Beric German 155

10 Black Women's Pathways to Involvement in Illicit Drug Distribution and Sales: an Exploratory Ethnographic Analysis / Lisa Maher, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson 167

Part IV Ways Out

11 The Background of Illegal Drug Abuse: a German View / Helmut Kury, Joachim Obergfell-Fuchs, Theodore Ferdinand 197

12 Deviant Pathways of Alcoholic and Drug-addicted Patients / Francoise Facy, Myriam Rabaud, Daniel Ruffin 219

13 Pathways out of Deviance: Implications for Programme Evaluation / Celine Mercier, Sophie Alarie 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754630234

OCLC:

50269985