Trafficking in Drug Users

Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance

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Hardcover | 14 May 1984

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Control of illegal drug use and abuse requires an elaborate network of organizations and professions: medical, legal, political, educational, and welfare. This book explores the way in which these diverse sectors coordinate the control of deviance in a complex society and how they respond to a sudden widespread increase in deviance spanning many institutional and professional domains. The latter of these concerns, James Beniger argues, affords us a unique insight into the more general question of societal control. He takes as an example of this phenomenon the dramatic appearance of the 'drug problem' in America in the Vietnam war era of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Exploiting this as an approximation of an experimentally induced disruption of society, Professor Beniger examines its impact on the interorganizational and professional networks that together constitute a system for the control of a social deviance. His study produces the startling finding that as various rewards - raises in salary, promotions, government funds, media exposure, enhanced status - accrued to the new social problem, many drug specialists gained increasing stake in the very deviance they were professionally charged to control. Societal control of the drug problem became transformed - quite literally - into a trafficking by professionals in young drug users.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
The emergence of the ""drug problem"": social change versus social control
Control systems from exchange in networks: towards a synthesis of system and action theory
Stratification in information and referral exchange
Exchange relationships in social-control system
The social system: boundary maintenance and hierarchical control
Summary: the control system in context
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index
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Trafficking in Drug Users

Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance

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