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THE LIBRARY OF DRUG ABUSE AND CRIME
Series Editor: Mangai Natarajan, The City University of New York, USA
The articles in this series provide a thorough review of recent literature,
an intellectual critique of the relevant studies, and identify gaps in research
and policy relating to drug abuse and crime. For full information on this
series and these titles, please visit www.ashgate.com/legalreference
NEW
Drugs and Crime
Volume II
Edited by Mangai Natarajan,
City University of New York, USA
The Library of Drug Abuse and Crime
Contents:
INTRODUCTION:
PART I: THE DRUGS-CRIME CONNECTION:
1. DRUG ABUSE AND CRIME:
Drugs and crime revisited, Scott Menard, Sharon Mihalic
and David Huizinga;
Addiction careers and criminal specialization, David Farabee, Vandana Joshi
and M. Douglas Anglin;
The relationship between drug use and crime: A puzzle inside an enigma, Mark Simpson;
The association between multiple drug misuse and crime, Trevor Bennett
and Katy Holloway;
The three-metros study of drugs and crime in South Africa: Findings and policy
implications, Charles D.H. Parry, Andreas Plüddemann, Antoinette Louw
and Ted Leggett.
2. DRUG ABUSE AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY:
Testing a longitudinal model of the relationships among high risk youths’ drug sales,
drug use and participation in index crimes, Richard Dembo, Werner Wothke,
William Seeberger, Marina Shemwell, Kimberly Pacheco, Matthew Rollie,
James Schmeidler, Stephen Livingston and Amy Hartsfield;
Antisocial behavior among young Australians while under the influence of illicit
drugs, Ian McAllister and Toni Makkai;
The effects of substance use on specific types of criminal offending in young men,
John W. Welte, Lening Zhang and William F. Wieczorek;
Aggressive behavior and opportunities to purchase drugs, Marsha F. Rosenberg
and James C. Anthony.
3. DRUG ABUSE,VIOLENCE AND VICTIMIZATION:
Methamphetamine use, self-reported violent crime and recidivism among offenders
in California who abuse substances, Jerome Cartier, David Farabee
and Michael L. Prendergast;
‘Drug abuse and partner volence among women in methadone treatment,
Nabila El-Bassel, Louisa Gilbert, Robert Schilling and Takeshi Wada;
A two-year longitudinal analysis of the relationships between violent assault
and substance use in women, Dean G. Kilpatrick, Ron Acierno, Heidi S. Resnick,
Benjamin E. Saunders and Connie L. Best;
Sex work and drug use in a subculture of violence, Hilary L. Surratt, James A. Inciardi,
Stephen P. Kurtz and Marion C. Kiley.
PART II: DRUG CRIMES:
1. DRUG TRAFFICKING AND DRUG DISTRIBUTION:
Varieties of drug trafficking organizations: A typology of cases prosecuted
in New York City, Mangai Natarajan and Mathieu Belanger;
Flexible hierarchies and dynamic disorder: The drug distribution system in Frankfurt
and Milan, Letizia Paoli;
Understanding the structure of a large heroin distribution network: A quantitative
analysis of qualitative data, Mangai Natarajan;
King pin? A case study of a middle market drug broker, Geoffrey Pearson
and Dick Hobbs;
British South Asian communities and drug supply networks in the UK: A qualitative
study, Vincenzo Ruggiero and Kazim Khan;
From Cali to Rotterdam: Perceptions of Colombian cocaine traffickers on the Dutch
port, Damián Zaitch.
2. DRUG MARKETS AND LOCAL LEVEL DEALING:
Investigating the connections between race, illicit drug markets, and lethal
violence, Graham C. Ousey and Matthew R. Lee;
Street-level drug market activity in Sydney’s primary heroin markets:
Organization, adulteration practices, pricing, marketing and violence,
Ross Coomber and Lisa Maher;
The effect of a reduction in heroin supply in Australia upon drug distribution
and acquisitive crime, Louisa Degenhardt, Elizabeth Conroy, Stuart Gilmour
and Linette Collins;
What drug dealers tell us about their costs of doing business, Jonathan P. Caulkins,
Bruce Johnson, Angela Taylor and Lowell Taylor.
NAME INDEX.
Includes 23 previously published journal articles
March 2010 510 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-2772-2 £140.00
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NEW
Drugs of Abuse: The International Scene
Volume I
Edited by Mangai Natarajan, City University of New York, USA
The Library of Drug Abuse and Crime
Contents:
INTRODUCTION:
PART I: DRUG ABUSE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD:
Reawakening the dragon: Changing patterns of opiate use in
Asia, with particular emphasis on China’s Yunnan
Province, Clyde B. McCoy, H. Virginia McCoy,
Shenghan Lai, Zhinuan Yu, Xue-ren Wang and Jie Meng;
Factors associated with recent-onset injection drug use among drug users in Pakistan,
Irene Kuo, Salman Ul-Hasan, Tariq Zafar, Noya Galai, Susan G. Sherman
and Steffanie A. Strathdee;
Review of injection drug use in 6 African countries: Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria,
South Africa and Tanzania, Sarah Dewing, Andreas Plüddemann, Bronwyn J. Myers
and Charles D.H. Parry;
Substance abuse among Czech adolescents: An overview of trends in the international
context, Ladislav Csemy, Pavla Lejèková and Petr Sadílek;
Trends in production, trafficking, and consumption of methamphetamine and cocaine
in Mexico, Kimberley C. Brouwer, Patricia Case, Rebeca Ramos,
Carlos Magis-Rodríguez, Jesus Bucardo, Thomas L. Patterson and Steffanie A. Strathdee;
Ecstasy use in South Africa: Findings from the South African community epidemiology
network on drug use (SACENDU) project (January 1997–December 2001),
Andreas Plüddemann, Charles D.H. Parry, Bronwyn Myers and Arvin Bhana;
Household survey on drug abuse in Brazil: study involving 107 major cities of the
country – 2001, José Carlos F. Galduróz, Ana Regina Noto, Solange A. Nappo
and E.A. Carlini.
PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW DRUGS AND POLY DRUG USE:
The prevalence of methamphetamine and amphetamine abuse in North America:
A review of the indicators, 1992–2007, Jane Carlisle Maxwell and Beth A. Rutkowski;
Concurrent use of methamphetamine, MDMA, LSD, ketamine, GHB and flunitrazepam
among American youths, Li-Tzy Wu, William E. Schlenger and Deborah M. Galvin;
Towards an explanation of subjective ketamine experiences among young injection
drug users, Stephen E. Lankenau, Bill Sanders, Jennifer Jackson Bloom
and Dodi Hathazi;
Illicit opioid use and its key characteristics: A select overview and evidence from
a Canadian multisite cohort of illicit opioid users (OPICAN), Benedikt Fischer,
Michelle Firestone Cruz and Jürgen Rehm;
Trends in ecstasy use in the United States from 1995 to 2001: Comparison
with marijuana users and association with other drug use, Silvia S. Martins,
Guido Mazzotti and Howard D. Chilcoat.
PART III: THE NORMALIZATION THESIS AND GATEWAY DRUGS:
NORMALIZATION THESIS:
The normalization of ‘sensible’ recreational drug use: Further evidence from
the North West England longitudinal study, Howard Parker, Lisa Williams
and Judith Aldridge;
Is Hong Kong experiencing normalization of adolescent drug use? Some reflections
on the normalization thesis, Nicole W.T. Cheung and Yuet W. Cheung;
Beyond ‘peer pressure’: Rethinking drug use and ‘youth culture’, Hilary Pilkington;
Normal drug use: Ethnographic fieldwork among an adult network of recreational
drug users in inner London, Geoffrey Pearson.
GATEWAY DRUGS:
Stages of progression in drug involvement from adolescence to adulthood:
Further evidence for the gateway theory, Denise B. Kandel, Kazuo Yamaguchi
and Kevin Chen;
Cannabis use and other illicit drug use: Testing the cannabis gateway hypothesis,
David M. Fergusson, Joseph M. Boden and L. John Horwood;
Variation in youthful risks of progression from alcohol and tobacco to marijuana
and to hard drugs across generations, Andrew Golub and Bruce D. Johnson;
Ecstasy and gateway drugs: Initiating the use of ecstasy and other drugs,
Lesley W. Reid, Kirk W. Elifson and Claire E. Sterk.
PART IV: METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN RESEARCHING DRUG ABUSE:
Changing patterns of ‘drug abuse’ in the United States: Connecting findings from
macro- and microepidemiologic studies, Zili Sloboda;
An ethno-epidemiological model for the study of trends in illicit drug use: Reflections
on the ‘emergence’ of crack injection, Michael C. Clatts, Dorinda L. Welle,
Lloyd A. Goldsamt and Stephen E. Lankenau;
Rapid assessment and response: Methods for developing public health responses
to drug problems, Gerry V. Stimson, Chris Fitch, Tim Rhodes and Andrew Ball;
Computerized projection of future heroin epidemics: A necessity for the 21st century?,
Jason Ditton and Martin Frischer;
Capture-recapture estimates of the local and national prevalence of problem drug
use in Scotland, Gordon Hay and Maria Gannon;
Typologies of drug dependence: Comparative validity of a multivariate and four
univariate models, Debasish Basu, Samuel A. Ball, Richard Feinn, Joel Gelernter
and Henry R. Kranzler;
Illicit drug use research in Latin America: Epidemiology, service use, and HIV,
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, María Elena Medina-Mora, Cristina G. Magaña,
William A. Vega, Christina Alejo-Garcia, Tania Real Quintanar, Lucía Vazquez,
Patricia D. Ballesteros, Juan Ibarra and Heidi Rosales;
Investigating how decisions to use marijuana change over time, Rashi K. Shukla
and Margaret S. Kelley;
NAME INDEX.
Includes 28 previously published journal articles
March 2010 480 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-2769-2 £140.00