Crime, Drugs and Social Theory
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Acquisitive Crime
Articulatory Authority
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Bourgeois Parlance
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Constrained Choice
constructionist theory
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Disturbing Encounters
Disturbing Episodes
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Doxic Relation
Drugs Crime Link
Economic Landscape
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Marginal Social Spaces
natural attitude in criminology
Order Language
phenomenological analysis
problematic
relation
robbery
social deviance
Social Pain
Social Scientific Point
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Street Robbery
Subcultural Perspective
substance misuse research
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- ISBN 9781138257214
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Do criminal cultures generate drug use? Crime, Drugs and Social Theory critiques conventional academic and policy thinking concerning the relationship between urban deprivation, crime and drug use. Chris Allen outlines an innovative constructionist phenomenological perspective to explore these relationships in a new light. He discusses how people living in deprived urban areas develop ’natural attitudes’ towards activities, such as crime and drug use, that are prevalent in the social worlds they inhabit, and shows that this produces forms of articulation such as ’I don’t know why I take drugs’, ’I just take them’ and ’drugs come naturally to me’. He then draws on his constructionist phenomenology to help understand the ’natural attitude’ towards crime and drugs that emerge from conditions of urban deprivation, as well as the non-reasoned forms of articulation that emerge from this attitude. The book argues that understanding the conditions in which drug users deviate from their ’natural attitude’ can help effective intervention in the lives of drug users.
Chris Allen is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Chris is the author of 30 articles in peer-reviewed social science journals since 1997 as well as 22 research reports, 20 articles in the national and professional media and 2 commercially published books.
