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Volume 3 gives a fascinating portrait of Barbara Wootton's beliefs and hopes, discussion ranging over the creation of the universe, personal immortality, the existence of a god, foundations of morality, the taking of life, and social, racial and sexual equality. She discourses on obligations between citizen and state, war and her wartime views on possible European federation, science and democracy, divorce and marriage laws, particular inequal...

This book comprises of fourteen specially commissioned essays on the theme of drug abuse and the control of drug use in Britain. It analyses and appraises the two strands of that which has been termed the 'British system' of control, namely, prescription to, and rehabilitation of, registered users and enforcement action against illegal users. It also examines issues of contemporary relevance in the drug control debate, including the economics ...

Regularly, there are calls to legalize illegal drugs, such as cannabis and ecstasy. Those who support legalization argue that the problem is prohibition and that legalization will solve all the problems, such as crime, ill-health, and so on. But this argument is another oversimplification. Legalization needs to be more carefully assessed before changing the existing system. Written by a well-respected criminologist, this book is a polemic piec...

Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem. Finding ways of dealing with this problem is a major platform of government policy and a great deal has been made of the impact of treatment on drug users. Drug Treatment: What Works? is a cutting edge survey of the latest developments in these treatments, and it sets out to ask some of the crucial questions in the treatment of drug abusers, including: * Which treatments work...

This book discusses the admission of mentally ill patients, their control in hospital and community and their rights.

Detailing the history of Italian Americans in Utica, New York, charting the rise of Utica's "colonia" in the mid-nineteenth century to its contemporary identity at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the author probes the multiple facets of this ethnic community.