Judging Drugs: Key Issues in Law and Society - Couverture rigide

 
9781009713351: Judging Drugs: Key Issues in Law and Society

Synopsis

Every day, judges determine vital questions about 'addiction', 'drugs', and the rights of those who use them. Despite the law's crucial role in handling drug 'problems', and in shaping drug practices, effects and outcomes, drug scholars have often overlooked case law. In a rapidly changing drug policy landscape, how is the law managing drug effects and harms, stigma, addiction, agency and responsibility? Why do we regulate drugs? Are drug offenders responsible for their actions? Is drug use a disability? Is drug treatment a human right? Do drugs cause harm? And might drug law itself be harmful? Authors in this volume take a variety of approaches to these questions and more. Drawing on critical theory, all consider new ways of thinking about 'drug problems'. This vital new collection enables a deeper, critical understanding of how the law 'works' to shape knowledge about, as well as 'judge', drug use and its effects.

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À propos des auteurs

Simon Flacks is Associate Professor at the School of Law, University of Sussex. He is a socio-legal scholar and criminologist with considerable expertise in researching the interface between law and critical drug studies. He has published widely. He is the author of Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood: From Protection to Punishment (2021).

Kate Seear is Professor at Deakin Law School, Deakin University, Australia. She is a lawyer, sociologist and leading international expert in critical drug studies. She has published widely on drug law and policy. Her book Law, drugs and the making of addiction: Just habits (2020) was the winner of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association's History and Theory book prize.

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