The Irish war on drugs : the seductive folly of prohibition /
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| Author / Creator: | O'Mahony, Paul. |
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| Imprint: | Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2008. |
| Description: | 244 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7689188 |
Table of Contents:
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Philosophy, politics and rhetoric
- 2. Three major perspectives: drug-free world/prohibition, drug use as a human right and harm reductionism
- 3. Drugs and crime
- 4. 'Inherent' drug-related crime: the criminal justice system response
- 5. The evolving Irish policy on drugs and drug-related crime
- 6. A balanced policy? Effective compromise or confused muddle?
- 7. The general failure of prohibition to prevent drug use: underlying reasons and key implications
- 8. The failure of Irish prohibition
- 9. The seductive folly of prohibition
- 10. The promise of alternative approaches: the possibility of a Kuhnian paradigm shift in the way we think about drugs
- Index
