Overview
- Draws on key researchers to consider the debates around intoxication and society
- Asks whether we respond adequately to intoxication in terms of harm reduction
- Considers how intoxication is experienced by diverse groups
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About this book
This book considers the global discourses and debates about ‘intoxication’, engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new, critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this book in their broadest sense; from ‘energy drinks’ and other legal drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to ‘problematic’ drug use.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Diverse Intoxications
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Representations of Intoxication
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Responses to Intoxication
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Fiona Hutton is Associate Professor at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University, New Zealand. She has taught and researched in the academic discipline of Criminology - specifically in the areas of criminological theory, gender, youth crime and cultures, drug policy, harm reduction, alcohol and other drugs - for the past twenty years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultures of Intoxication
Book Subtitle: Key Issues and Debates
Editors: Fiona Hutton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35284-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35283-7Published: 26 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35286-8Published: 26 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35284-4Published: 25 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 343
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and Society, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Criminal Behavior, Public Health, Crime and the Media