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This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporary Western world. It examines topics such as stigma, happiness, children, the body, gifts, the drug market, medication, sickness and health and also the orientation of themselves towards others, to social and cultural norms, to drug laws and to the substances. It discusses how drug related spaces and directions be analysed in terms of gender and class, and how, in turn, the directions of contemporary society and culture can be affected by drug use. It speaks to academics in Sociology, Criminology, Ethnology, Gender studies, Law and History.
Crime made Christ’s death a necessity. A simple choice in lies and deceit, a lapse in moral character, a choice to commit a simple criminal act against the Creator, paved the way for the cross. Jesus knew from before the beginning of creation that his death would atone for the lies, deceitfulness, and sinful choices of mankind. He knew, and he still made a way for us to him. This book discusses the personal element of crime in relation to Christian religious principles that made the cross necessary, while emphasizing the need for personal responsibility in light of criminological behavior.
Frågor om drogers skadlighet har länge varit ett prioriterat och laddat ämne i Sverige, politiskt och kulturellt. Samtidigt har både droganvändningen och läkemedelsanvändningen ökat. De representationer som oftast syns i medierna är endera kända personligheters användning eller utsatta, marginaliserade "knarkare". Den mest utbredda droganvändningen.