Killer Weed : Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, and Justice /

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Since the late 1990s, marijuana grow operations have been identified by media and others as a new and dangerous criminal activity of "epidemic" proportions. With Killer Weed, Susan C. Boyd and Connie Carter use their analysis of fifteen years of newspaper coverage to show how consensus abo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Boyd, Susan C. (Autor), Carter, Connie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Temas:
Drug control > History > Canada > 21st century.
Drug control > Canada > 21st century > History.
Marijuana > Government policy > History > 21st century > Canada.
Marijuana > Government policy > Canada > History > 21st century.
Marijuana > Law and legislation > Canada.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables And Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Killer Weed Marijuana Grow Ops, Media, And Justice
  • Introduction: Marijuana Grow Ops - Setting The Scene
  • 1.A Brief Sociohistory Of Drug Scares, Racialization, Nation Building, And Policy
  • 2.Problematizing Marijuana Grow Ops: Mayerthorpe And Beyond
  • 3. Marijuana Grow Ops And Organized Crime
  • 4. Racialization Of Marijuana Grow Ops
  • 5.Civil Responses To Marijuana Grow Ops
  • 6.Using Children To Promote Increased Regulation: The Representation And Regulation Of Children Found At Grow Ops
  • 7.Alternative Perspectives
  • Appendix: Methodological Issues
  • Notes
  • Newspaper References
  • General References
  • Index

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