Trafficking in Drug Users : Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The emergence of the 'drug problem': social change versus social control; 2. Control systems from exchange in networks: towards a synthesis of system and action theory; 3. Stratification in information and referral exchange; 4. Exchange relationships in social-control system; 5. The social system: boundary maintenance and hierarchical control; 6. Summary: the control system in context; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.