Toby Seddon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4238335 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Toby Seddon |
| PRENOMES | Toby |
| SOBRENOME | Seddon |
| ASSINATURA | SEDDON T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3516-5983 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Rethinking Drug Laws
This book develops a new way of understanding what global drug prohibition is, the origins of the prohibition system, and the possibilities for alternative futures. The first part explores the intellectual resources available for analysing and explaining drug control. By framing drug control as a form of market regulation, it sets out a new theoretical approach, using the notion of exchangespace. The second part explores the historical origins of…
Prescribing heroin
Immoral in Principle, Unworkable in Practice
In the late 1960s, the cause of cannabis law reform briefly rose to remarkable cultural prominence in several Western countries, notably the United Kingdom and the United States. Some 50 years later, as global cannabis prohibition is once again coming under intense critical scrutiny in many parts of the world, this paper revisits the events of the 1960s. Drawing on primary archival research, the paper recovers the story of the rapid emergence and…
Markets, Regulation and Drug Law Reform
After a century of international drug prohibition, and amidst growing consensus that it has been a costly policy failure, arguments for drug law reform are gathering momentum globally. Despite a large body of empirically oriented policy research, the area remains underdeveloped conceptually and theoretically. This article seeks to address this gap by assembling some intellectual resources for a critical socio-legal analysis of drug law reform, dr…
Controlling Drug Users
This article examines the control practices used in drug treatment services to regulate the behaviour of people with drug problems. Drawing on an extensive qualitative study, we developed a conceptual framework, integrating the notion of responsive regulation with Wrong’s sociology of power. The picture that emerges is of a complex ‘web of controls’, combining diverse forms of power and control techniques, used to steer action and shape behaviour…
Effect of initiating drug treatment on the risk of drug-related poisoning death and acquisitive crime among offending heroin users
For heroin-using offenders, initial contact with treatment services does not appear to reduce the likelihood of a future acquisitive offence
Pathways through opiate use and offending
Inventing Drugs
The trade in, and consumption of, illicit drugs is perhaps the archetypal ‘wicked problem’ of our time – complex, globalized, and seemingly intractable – and presents us with one of the very hardest legal and policy challenges of the twenty‐first century. The central concept of a ‘drug’ remains under‐theorized and largely neglected by critical socio‐legal and criminological scholars. Drawing on a range of primary archival material and secondary s…
Human rights, public health and medicinal cannabis use
This paper explores the interplay between the human rights and drug control frameworks and critiques case law on medicinal cannabis use to demonstrate that a bona fide human rights perspective allows for a broader conception of 'health'. This broad conception, encompassing both medicalised and social constructionist definitions, can inform public health policies relating to medicinal cannabis use. The paper also demonstrates how a human rights le…
Drug policy and global regulatory capitalism
The contractual governance of drug users in treatment
Explaining drug policy
Drug Use and Social Change
To explain societal patterns of drug use, and why these change over time, has been one of the perennial challenges for criminologists and others involved in the drugs research field. Mike Shiner has written an excellent book that makes a serious and valuable contribution to this endeavour. He provides a rare mix of theoretical understanding, conceptual sophistication and detailed data analysis, which together make for a genuinely insightful and i…
Drugs, Crime and Public Health
Journal Article Drugs, Crime and Public Health: The Political Economy of Drug Policy. By A. Stevens (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011, 201pp. £75.00) Get access DRUGS, CRIMEAND PUBLIC HEALTH: THE POLITICAL ECONOMYOF DRUG POLICY. By A. Stevens (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011, 201pp. £75.00) Toby Seddon Toby Seddon Regulation, Security and Justice Research Centre, School of Law, University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
What is a problem drug user
The term ‘problem drug user’ (PDU) has risen to prominence in policy and research discourse over the past 25 years or so, particularly in the UK and Europe, largely at the expense of the older ‘addiction’ and ‘dependence’ concepts. How should we understand this shift? Is it merely a change in terminological fashion or does it signify something more significant? In exploring this question, the work of the philosopher Ian Hacking is drawn on, in pa…
From Dangerousness to Precaution
Theorists such as Ewald and Ericson, in their respective writings, argue that, increasingly, governmental responses to incalculable, but high-consequence, threats to life and security are framed by what has been described as ‘precautionary logic’. Neither theorist sought to analyse and develop the argument with regard to the problem of protecting the public from ‘dangerous’ sexual and violent offenders. This article takes up this challenge. It re…
Women, harm reduction and history
Dangerous liaisons
In July 1999, radical and controversial proposals were put forward by the UK government for a new approach to the management of dangerous individuals with severe personality disorders. The Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) programme involved service development and research but its most contentious part was the proposal for new legislation to provide civil and criminal powers for the detention of DSPD individuals in new specialist …
Risk, Security and The 'Criminalization' of British Drug Policy
Recent British drug policy has increasingly focused on ‘problem drug users’, namely users of heroin and/or crack-cocaine who are involved in acquisitive offending. The overarching objective of the new drug policy agenda is to develop and enhance the pathways between the criminal justice system and drug treatment services, with the aim of reducing this ‘drug-related’ crime. The emphasis on crime reduction, and on drug treatment in the criminal jus…
Punishment and Madness
The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. The wider context and backdrop to the book is the shift to 'late modernity', which, since the 1970s has seen massive structural change in most Western societies, affecting the social, economic and cultural spheres, as well as the field of crime and punishment. This book investigates whether these profound tran…
Drugs and freedom
The ‘right’ to use drugs is often seen as a question of freedom and debates about ‘drugs and freedom’ frequently take place on the terrain of moral and political philosophy. In this article, it is argued that there is a different, and more critically significant, link between drugs and freedom that can be made. It is suggested that the two exist in a constitutive relation, so that drugs and the drug question cannot be fully understood or grasped …
Coerced drug treatment in the criminal justice system
A striking phenomenon in many western countries is the increasing use of the criminal justice system as a means of channelling and coercing drug users into treatment. Despite somewhat equivocal research evidence about its effectiveness, this approach has continued to expand, including in Britain. This article takes a step back and explores some of the critical background issues that have been largely overlooked to date. Some conceptual, ethical a…
The regulation of heroin
Doing drugs research in the criminal justice system
The increasing emphasis on the drug–crime link in British drug policy in recent years has had a knock-on effect on British drugs research. Research is now taking place more and more within the criminal justice system, rather than exclusively in the traditional sites of the community or drug treatment services. This shift has posed some significant challenges for drugs researchers but these have been little discussed to date. This article aims to …
Drugs, Crime and Social Exclusion
The association between drugs and crime is one of the central concerns of contemporary British drugs research and policy. Another major concern in recent years has been the clustering together of the most serious problems of drugs and crime in neighbourhoods already experiencing multiple social and economic difficulties. This paper seeks, first of all, to re-situate the drug-crime nexus in its full social context in order to provide a new perspec…
Drugs, Crime and Social Exclusion
The association between drugs and crime is one of the central concerns of contemporary British drugs research and policy. Another major concern in recent years has been the clustering together of the most serious problems of drugs and crime in neighbourhoods already experiencing multiple social and economic difficulties. This paper seeks, first of all, to re-situate the drug-crime nexus in its full social context in order to provide a new perspec…
Explaining the Drug-Crime Link
The belief that drug addiction is the motor behind much property crime has been a key part of recent UK drug policy. Review of the literature shows that the empirical evidence does not support this view. It also demonstrates that the fundamental weakness of existing research is its failure to address the question of causality properly, relying mainly on uni-directional mechanistic 'cause-and-effect' models. It is suggested that the drug-crime lin…
From Dangerousness to Precaution
Theorists such as Ewald and Ericson, in their respective writings, argue that, increasingly, governmental responses to incalculable, but high-consequence, threats to life and security are framed by what has been described as ‘precautionary logic’. Neither theorist sought to analyse and develop the argument with regard to the problem of protecting the public from ‘dangerous’ sexual and violent offenders. This article takes up this challenge. It re…
Risk, Security and The 'Criminalization' of British Drug Policy
Recent British drug policy has increasingly focused on ‘problem drug users’, namely users of heroin and/or crack-cocaine who are involved in acquisitive offending. The overarching objective of the new drug policy agenda is to develop and enhance the pathways between the criminal justice system and drug treatment services, with the aim of reducing this ‘drug-related’ crime. The emphasis on crime reduction, and on drug treatment in the criminal jus…
Inventing Drugs
The trade in, and consumption of, illicit drugs is perhaps the archetypal ‘wicked problem’ of our time – complex, globalized, and seemingly intractable – and presents us with one of the very hardest legal and policy challenges of the twenty‐first century. The central concept of a ‘drug’ remains under‐theorized and largely neglected by critical socio‐legal and criminological scholars. Drawing on a range of primary archival material and secondary s…
Coerced drug treatment in the criminal justice system
A striking phenomenon in many western countries is the increasing use of the criminal justice system as a means of channelling and coercing drug users into treatment. Despite somewhat equivocal research evidence about its effectiveness, this approach has continued to expand, including in Britain. This article takes a step back and explores some of the critical background issues that have been largely overlooked to date. Some conceptual, ethical a…
Dangerous liaisons
In July 1999, radical and controversial proposals were put forward by the UK government for a new approach to the management of dangerous individuals with severe personality disorders. The Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) programme involved service development and research but its most contentious part was the proposal for new legislation to provide civil and criminal powers for the detention of DSPD individuals in new specialist …
The regulation of heroin
Markets, Regulation and Drug Law Reform
After a century of international drug prohibition, and amidst growing consensus that it has been a costly policy failure, arguments for drug law reform are gathering momentum globally. Despite a large body of empirically oriented policy research, the area remains underdeveloped conceptually and theoretically. This article seeks to address this gap by assembling some intellectual resources for a critical socio-legal analysis of drug law reform, dr…
Drug Control in Prisons
This article examines the UK government's recent prison drug control strategy. The focus is on the control aspects of the proposals, for example, tightening security and the introduction of mandatory urine testing. A national telephone survey of prison Heads of Custody reveals broad support for the strategy but indicates that there are certain tensions and conflicts within it. These tensions are likely to make implementation problematic and limit…
Explaining the Drug-Crime Link
The belief that drug addiction is the motor behind much property crime has been a key part of recent UK drug policy. Review of the literature shows that the empirical evidence does not support this view. It also demonstrates that the fundamental weakness of existing research is its failure to address the question of causality properly, relying mainly on uni-directional mechanistic 'cause-and-effect' models. It is suggested that the drug-crime lin…
Paying drug users to take part in research
Paying research subjects as an incentive to participation is a widespread practice within health and social research. Where subjects are illegal drug users, this practice is often felt to raise particular ethical issues. This paper explores this question of paying drug users to take part in research from the perspective of three models: justice; human rights; and business. Issues discussed include whether cash payments are appropriate, payment am…
Doing drugs research in the criminal justice system
The increasing emphasis on the drug–crime link in British drug policy in recent years has had a knock-on effect on British drugs research. Research is now taking place more and more within the criminal justice system, rather than exclusively in the traditional sites of the community or drug treatment services. This shift has posed some significant challenges for drugs researchers but these have been little discussed to date. This article aims to …
Drugs, Crime and Social Exclusion
The association between drugs and crime is one of the central concerns of contemporary British drugs research and policy. Another major concern in recent years has been the clustering together of the most serious problems of drugs and crime in neighbourhoods already experiencing multiple social and economic difficulties. This paper seeks, first of all, to re-situate the drug-crime nexus in its full social context in order to provide a new perspec…
Punishment and Madness
The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. The wider context and backdrop to the book is the shift to 'late modernity', which, since the 1970s has seen massive structural change in most Western societies, affecting the social, economic and cultural spheres, as well as the field of crime and punishment. This book investigates whether these profound tran…
Drugs and freedom
The ‘right’ to use drugs is often seen as a question of freedom and debates about ‘drugs and freedom’ frequently take place on the terrain of moral and political philosophy. In this article, it is argued that there is a different, and more critically significant, link between drugs and freedom that can be made. It is suggested that the two exist in a constitutive relation, so that drugs and the drug question cannot be fully understood or grasped …
Coerced drug treatment in the criminal justice system
A striking phenomenon in many western countries is the increasing use of the criminal justice system as a means of channelling and coercing drug users into treatment. Despite somewhat equivocal research evidence about its effectiveness, this approach has continued to expand, including in Britain. This article takes a step back and explores some of the critical background issues that have been largely overlooked to date. Some conceptual, ethical a…
The regulation of heroin
Women, harm reduction and history
Dangerous liaisons
In July 1999, radical and controversial proposals were put forward by the UK government for a new approach to the management of dangerous individuals with severe personality disorders. The Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) programme involved service development and research but its most contentious part was the proposal for new legislation to provide civil and criminal powers for the detention of DSPD individuals in new specialist …
Risk, Security and The 'Criminalization' of British Drug Policy
Recent British drug policy has increasingly focused on ‘problem drug users’, namely users of heroin and/or crack-cocaine who are involved in acquisitive offending. The overarching objective of the new drug policy agenda is to develop and enhance the pathways between the criminal justice system and drug treatment services, with the aim of reducing this ‘drug-related’ crime. The emphasis on crime reduction, and on drug treatment in the criminal jus…
From Dangerousness to Precaution
Theorists such as Ewald and Ericson, in their respective writings, argue that, increasingly, governmental responses to incalculable, but high-consequence, threats to life and security are framed by what has been described as ‘precautionary logic’. Neither theorist sought to analyse and develop the argument with regard to the problem of protecting the public from ‘dangerous’ sexual and violent offenders. This article takes up this challenge. It re…
What is a problem drug user
The term ‘problem drug user’ (PDU) has risen to prominence in policy and research discourse over the past 25 years or so, particularly in the UK and Europe, largely at the expense of the older ‘addiction’ and ‘dependence’ concepts. How should we understand this shift? Is it merely a change in terminological fashion or does it signify something more significant? In exploring this question, the work of the philosopher Ian Hacking is drawn on, in pa…
Explaining drug policy
Drug Use and Social Change
To explain societal patterns of drug use, and why these change over time, has been one of the perennial challenges for criminologists and others involved in the drugs research field. Mike Shiner has written an excellent book that makes a serious and valuable contribution to this endeavour. He provides a rare mix of theoretical understanding, conceptual sophistication and detailed data analysis, which together make for a genuinely insightful and i…
Drugs, Crime and Public Health
Journal Article Drugs, Crime and Public Health: The Political Economy of Drug Policy. By A. Stevens (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011, 201pp. £75.00) Get access DRUGS, CRIMEAND PUBLIC HEALTH: THE POLITICAL ECONOMYOF DRUG POLICY. By A. Stevens (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011, 201pp. £75.00) Toby Seddon Toby Seddon Regulation, Security and Justice Research Centre, School of Law, University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
The contractual governance of drug users in treatment
Drug policy and global regulatory capitalism
Human rights, public health and medicinal cannabis use
This paper explores the interplay between the human rights and drug control frameworks and critiques case law on medicinal cannabis use to demonstrate that a bona fide human rights perspective allows for a broader conception of 'health'. This broad conception, encompassing both medicalised and social constructionist definitions, can inform public health policies relating to medicinal cannabis use. The paper also demonstrates how a human rights le…
Inventing Drugs
The trade in, and consumption of, illicit drugs is perhaps the archetypal ‘wicked problem’ of our time – complex, globalized, and seemingly intractable – and presents us with one of the very hardest legal and policy challenges of the twenty‐first century. The central concept of a ‘drug’ remains under‐theorized and largely neglected by critical socio‐legal and criminological scholars. Drawing on a range of primary archival material and secondary s…
Pathways through opiate use and offending
Effect of initiating drug treatment on the risk of drug-related poisoning death and acquisitive crime among offending heroin users
For heroin-using offenders, initial contact with treatment services does not appear to reduce the likelihood of a future acquisitive offence
Markets, Regulation and Drug Law Reform
After a century of international drug prohibition, and amidst growing consensus that it has been a costly policy failure, arguments for drug law reform are gathering momentum globally. Despite a large body of empirically oriented policy research, the area remains underdeveloped conceptually and theoretically. This article seeks to address this gap by assembling some intellectual resources for a critical socio-legal analysis of drug law reform, dr…
Controlling Drug Users
This article examines the control practices used in drug treatment services to regulate the behaviour of people with drug problems. Drawing on an extensive qualitative study, we developed a conceptual framework, integrating the notion of responsive regulation with Wrong’s sociology of power. The picture that emerges is of a complex ‘web of controls’, combining diverse forms of power and control techniques, used to steer action and shape behaviour…
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