Recent years have seen new threats to public safety, including buildings and infrastructure. Increasingly, modern technology (e.g., surveillance cameras) is used to contain these risks. This session includes presentations that discuss various contemporary and alternative [...]
This session explores the nexus of two fundamentally different premises surrounding drug use and drug users. First, the ‘legitimate’ use of prescription drugs to manage the ever-increasing discovery of mood and personality disorders. Second, the [...]
Moving from justice to health regulation, cannabis dispensaries and harm reduction strategies have become a topic of major interest in recent scholarship. Within this framework, human rights now constitute an important aspect of the drug [...]
A convict’s life in a total institution is consumed with regimented boredom and periodic moments of explosive violence; sensory and social deprivation and punitive interventions. This begs the questions: How then do these men and [...]
Attempts to respond to crime largely rely on governments to create new laws and agents of social control to enforce them. This, however, is generally not the case when it comes to ‘non-conventional’ crime, including [...]