"In past decades, data mining has witnessed substantial advances by efforts from various communities. On the other hand, new research questions and practical challenges are continuously presented due to newly emerging topics and applications within the various fields closely related to human daily life, e.g. social media and social networking. This book aims to bridge the gap between the existing research and application progresses in tr ..."
Illicit Drugs(2nd Edition) Use and control by AdrianBarton Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-49237-9, ISBN: 0-415-49237-8
"Illicit drugs and their use are a dominant concern of politicians, policy makers and the general public. As such, this second edition of the popular Illicit Drugs: Use and Control provides a timely, up-to-date discussion of the key issues raised in the first edition, whilst also providing new chapters which address: Class, gender and race The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution Britain’s drug use within a glob ..."
Illicit Drugs(1st Edition) Use and Control by AdrianBarton Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-28172-0, ISBN: 0-415-28172-5
"Illicit drugs and their use are now, more than ever, a dominant concern of politicians, policy makers and the general public. Often, our understandings of the 'drug problem' tend to be uni-dimensional and based around particular areas of risk: drug related crime, dependency and ill-health. This book moves beyond this single issue approach and locates illicit drug use in its wider context, with chapters on: the history of illicit drug u ..."
"How the state 'deals with' crime and criminality is a major issue for all students of criminology and criminal justice. This book offers a fresh perspective on the policy making process in the criminal justice system of England and Wales by presenting a detailed overview of both the theory behind it and how it plays out in practise with contemporary policy examples. The key features of this text include a detailed analysis of the basic ..."
Illicit Drugs, Use and control(2nd Edition) REV Edition Number is 2 by AdrianBarton Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-49233-1, ISBN: 0-415-49233-5
"Illicit drugs and their use are a dominant concern of politicians, policy makers and the general public. As such, this second edition of the popular Illicit Drugs: Use and Control provides a timely, up-to-date discussion of the key issues raised in the first edition, whilst also providing new chapters which address: Class, gender and race The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution Britain’s drug use within a glob ..."
Routledge Revivals Ser. Managing Fragmentation : An Area Child Protection Committee in a Time of Change by AdrianBarton Hardcover, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-73320-6, ISBN: 1-138-73320-2
Illicit Drugs(1st Edition) Use and Control (Hardback) by AdrianBarton Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-28171-3, ISBN: 0-415-28171-7
"This book moves beyond this single issue approach and locates illicit drug use in its wider context, with chapters on: the history of illicit drug use measuring the 'problem' legal and medical responses to illicit drug use the illicit drugs ..."
Welfare and Society Ser. Managing Fragmentation : An Area Child Protection Committee in a Time of Change by AdrianBarton Hardcover, 161 Pages, Published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-1840-9, ISBN: 0-7546-1840-4
"The rise of New Public Management and the fragmentation of agencies that resulted created unprecedented new tensions and problems in multi-agency work. This book provides an insight into the workings of a large multi-agency committee, exploring the manner in which different agencies brought their own agendas, organizational structures and world-views to a multi-agency forum and expected working relationships to be relatively problem fre ..."
Illicit Drugs Use and Control by AdrianBarton Published 2003 ISBN-13: 978-1-134-46113-4, ISBN: 1-134-46113-5
Illicit Drugs Use and Control by AdrianBarton 192 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-203-39821-0, ISBN: 0-203-39821-1
"This book moves beyond this single issue approach and locates illicit drug use in its wider context, with chapters on: the history of illicit drug use measuring the 'problem' legal and medical responses to illicit drug use the illicit drugs ..."
Managing Fragmentation An Area Child Protection Committee in a Time of Change by AdrianBarton 174 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-74302-0, ISBN: 1-351-74302-3
"This book provides a fascinating insight into the workings of a large multi-agency committee, exploring the manner in which different agencies brought their own agendas, organizational structures and world-views to a multi-agency forum and ..."
"Writers such as Lipsky (1980) suggest that if you think about the roles that the professionals we have identified in the list above perform, you will see that in many criminal justice organisations street level bureaucrats have large degrees of ..."
Illicit Drugs Use and Control by AdrianBarton 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-00724-0, ISBN: 1-134-00724-8
"Drug problems weretobe seen as one ofa numberofanormal« social problems,
ratherthan a specific set of problems requiringspecial treatment.In this way ...
Thus, usingthe police to dealwith druguse becomes as unusual asusing
thepolice to deal with, forexample, unemployment. ... shops« (Boekhout van
Solinge1999:512)."
Illicit Drugs Use and Control by AdrianBarton 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-00725-7, ISBN: 1-134-00725-6
"Use and Control Adrian Barton ... policy. Introduction One of the intentions of this
work has been to alert the reader to the complex nature of the illicit drug ... chart
the development of British policy from the 'just say no' approach of the early
1980s through to the criminal justice ... The chapter begins with a brief excursion
into some of the literature that describes the policy-making processes, the ... It
then looks at the ..."