This article seeks to explore whether compulsive buying may be conceived of as a
behavioural addiction and to identify compulsive buying's potential ability to regulate mood …

Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, Eighth Edition, focuses on the many
critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision-making …

Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology introduces the discipline of sociology to the
contemporary student and provides an integrated, comprehensible framework from which to …

This paper responds to a number of recent criticisms of labeling theory. Some have criticized
labeling theory for empathizing with deviants. These critics ignore the emphasis of the …

How historical, social, and cultural forces shaped the psychedelic experience in midcentury
America, from CIA LSD experiments the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Are psychedelics …

This paper summarises and compares the impacts of cannabis decriminalisation measures
in two countries. In Australia, an expiation model of decriminalisation succeeded in avoiding …

Research on the minority group-threat hypothesis has often found that the percentages of
black and Latino populations at the city level have predicted variations in municipal police …

First published in 1997, this book identifies the problems that face black women in the
criminal justice system as the result of the articulation of unequal and oppressive class, race …

A two-wave panel survey was carried out on a representative sample of New York State
public secondary school students in fall 1971 and spring 1972. The majority of adolsecents …