The contributors to this study examine the extended processes that are involved when drugs become determinative for other forms of deviant behaviour. They present a multidisciplinary approach to the study of drug abuse and crime.

Zusammenfassung
This key work exposes international studies from leading social sciences researchers who use various theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations to depict deviant drug and crime-related pathways. In doing so, it presents an invaluable overview of the most advanced research in the field.

Inhalt
Contents: Introduction, Serge Brochu, Candido da Agra and Marie-Marthe Cousineau. Deviance, Set and Setting: The complex structures, processes and meanings of the drug/crime relationship, Candido da Agra; The study of psychological self-organization processes in deviant pathways: contributions of the biogram method, Celina Manita and Candido da Agra; Drug addiction and drug dealing - from trajectories to careers: the status of the question in social sciences in France, Michel Kokoreff and Claude Faugeron; Ethnographic space-time: culture of resistance in a 'dangerous place', LuÃs Fernandes and Tiago Neves. Youth, Drug and Delinquency Pathways: Developmental trajectories leading to delinquency and substance use in adolescence: results from Quebec studies, René Carbonneau; Deviant trajectories at the turning point between adolescence and adulthood, Michel Born and Claire Gavray; Deviant youth trajectories: adoption, progression and regression of deviant lifestyles, Natacha Brunelle, Marie-Marthe Cousineau and Serge Brochu. Adult, Drug and Crime Pathways: Drug/crime pathways among cocaine users, Isabelle Parent and Serge Brochu; Flexing crack in Toronto: a deviant pathway for poor, homeless drug users, Patricia G. Erickson, Jennifer Butters and Beric German; Black women's pathways to involvement in illicit drug distribution and sales: an exploratory ethnographic analysis, Lisa Maher, Eloise Dunlap and Bruce D. Johnson. Ways Out: The background of illegal drug abuse - a German view, Helmut Kury, Joachim Obergfell-Fuchs and Theodore Ferdinand; Deviant pathways of alcoholic and drug-addicted patients, Françoise Facy, Myriam Rabaud and Daniel Ruffin; Pathways out of deviance: implications for programme evaluation, Céline Mercier and Sophie Alarie; Conclusion, Marie-Marthe Cousineau, Candido da Agra and Serge Brochu; Index.