Drugs, Prisons and Policy-Making
Description
In this fascinating new work, Karen Duke explores the conflicts and contradictory pressures in the development of prison drugs policy in Britain from 1980 to the present. Based on interviews with key policy actors and documentary analysis, it explores how policy networks around drug issues in prisons have attempted to contain the contradictions between treatment and punishment and how their activities have been shaped by the ways in which the drugs issue is framed, the roles of research, evidence and knowledge, and the impact of wider social, political, policy and institutional contexts.
Keywords
Political SciencePublic PolicySocial PolicySocial ScienceCriminologySociologyPenologyHistory & Theory
2003Book
Author(s)Karen Duke
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333982037
LanguageEnglish
