Drugs, alcohol, and social problems / edited by James D. Orcutt and David R. Rudy.

Other author Orcutt, James D.
Other author Rudy, David R.
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2003.
Descriptionviii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Subjects

SeriesUnderstanding social problems
Understanding social problems. ^A564139
Contents Constructing the ownership of social problems : fun and profit in the welfare state / Joseph R. Gusfield -- Deviant drinking as disease : alcoholism as a social accomplishment / Joseph W. Schneider -- Shocking numbers and graphic accounts : quantified images of drug problems in the print media / James D. Orcutt and J. Blake Turner -- Comparative ideologies and alcoholism : the Protestant and proletarian ethics / Timothy P. Rouse and Prabha N. Unnithan -- Setting the public agenda : 'street crime' and drug use in American politics / Katherine Beckett -- Truth and DARE : tracking drug education to graduation and as symbolic politics / Earl Wysong, Richard Aniskiewicz, and David Wright -- Explaining racial/ethnic differences in adolescent drug use : the impact of background and lifestyle / John M. Wallace, Jr. and Jerald G. Bachman -- Drinking by black and white women : results from a national survey / Denise Herd -- Race, class, and gender differences in substance abuse : evidence of middle-class/underclass polarization among black males / Kellie E.M. Barr ... [et al.] -- You can't help but get stoned : notes on the social organization of marijuana smoking / Don H. Zimmerman and D. Lawrence Wieder -- Shifts and oscillations in deviant careers : the case of upper-level drug dealers and smugglers / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler -- The 'drunken bum' theory of wife beating / Glenda Kaufman Kantor and Murray A. Straus -- Drugs-crime connections : elaborations from the life histories of hard-core heroin addicts / Charles E. Faupel and Carl B. Klockars -- Social misery and the sanctions of substance abuse : confronting HIV risk among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco / Philippe Bourgois, Mark Lettiere, and James Quesada.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003004918
ISBN0742528448 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0742528456 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HV5825 .D7798 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold