No One Learned’

Interpreting a Drugs Crackdown Operation and its Consequences Through The ‘Lens’ of Social Harm

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8401938
AutoresWill Mason (0000-0003-1673-524X, University of Sheffield, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Fecha de publicación2019-07-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azz047
OpenAlexW2959882021
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas63

This article seeks to extend studies of social harm by detailing the ways that harm is interpreted, identified and reflected upon by social actors in a specific empirical context: a drugs crackdown operation in a northern English city. Using a longitudinal ethnographic approach, unique insights are reported both from the time that the operation took place and a point in time five years afterwards. The data offer rich accounts of the immediate, short- and longer-term impacts as interpreted by youth workers and a group of mostly Somali young people (aged 13–19). Social harm, it is argued, offers a useful ‘lens’ through which to critically explore the culpability of well-meaning state interventions in the (re)production of structural inequalities

Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Culpability · Ethnography · Harm · Meaning (existential) · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · History · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology