RT Article
T1 The moral economy of heroin in ‘Austerity Britain’
JF Critical criminology
VO 24
IS 3
SP 363
OP 377
A1 Wakeman, Stephen
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1848991053
AB This article presents the findings of an ethnographic exploration of heroin use in a disadvantaged area of the United Kingdom. Drawing on developments in continental philosophy as well as debates around the nature of social exclusion in the late-modern west, the core claim made here is that the cultural systems of exchange and mutual support which have come to underpin heroin use in this locale - that, taken together, form a ‘moral economy of heroin’ - need to be understood as an exercise in reconstituting a meaningful social realm by, and specifically for, this highly marginalised group. The implications of this claim are discussed as they pertain to the fields of drug policy, addiction treatment, and critical criminological understandings of disenfranchised groups.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 376-377
K1 Heroin
K1 Heroin User
K1 Instrumental Function
K1 Moral Economy
K1 Social Exclusion
DO 10.1007/s10612-015-9312-5