Schneider (Eric C.), Smack : Heroin and the American City

Since the 1970s, heroin started to become a major urban problem in European cities, constituting a threat that increased over the following decade. In the US, especially in New York, these problems began much earlier and with greater intensity. While there are many sociological and anthropological...

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izdano v:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs,
Glavni avtor: Weinhauer, Klaus
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jezik:Anglais
Izdano: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2013
Online dostop:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Izvleček:Since the 1970s, heroin started to become a major urban problem in European cities, constituting a threat that increased over the following decade. In the US, especially in New York, these problems began much earlier and with greater intensity. While there are many sociological and anthropological studies on drug use, historical research is still rare. The same is true for studies which focus on heroin in a broader context and not only on individual drug takers, who are often labelled with t...