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  • Student transitions into drug supply: exploring the university as a 'risk environment'

    Author(s)
    Moyle, Leah
    Coomber, Ross
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Coomber, Ross
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    Drug use, like much criminality, is often explored in relation to the journey into adulthood. Though young people are understood to commonly ‘grow out’ of crime, protracted transitions from adolescence into adulthood have brought about a new developmental phase where many young people are freer to engage in drug-related leisure and other forms of subterranean play in a period of extended adolescence. In this article, we look to this phase with focus upon those engaged in full time higher education and explore the extent to which entry into university and ‘studenthood’ enables particular changes in levels of involvement in ...
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    Drug use, like much criminality, is often explored in relation to the journey into adulthood. Though young people are understood to commonly ‘grow out’ of crime, protracted transitions from adolescence into adulthood have brought about a new developmental phase where many young people are freer to engage in drug-related leisure and other forms of subterranean play in a period of extended adolescence. In this article, we look to this phase with focus upon those engaged in full time higher education and explore the extent to which entry into university and ‘studenthood’ enables particular changes in levels of involvement in recreational drug use and supply. Drawing on 30 in-depth interviews undertaken with mainly ‘traditional’ undergraduate university students in South West England, this article seeks to explore the ways in which the structural circumstances of the university environment can produce favourable conditions for ‘turning points’, where university students transition into regular drug use and ‘social supply’. It is argued that the university can be understood as a specific ‘risk environment’ where certain cultural and environmental attributes including distance from guardians, the interconnected nature of the student populace, and financial insecurity can ultimately provide facilitative conditions for transitions into drug supply.
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    Journal Title
    JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES
    Volume
    22
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2018.1529863
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Specialist studies in education
    Sociology
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/383929
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