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LARD01 violence and drugs

LARD01 violence and drugs. (a special composite for 2010). General Issues -- Liberal Dilemmas. Reconciling individual freedom and social responsibility Early approach -- Bentham and the pursuit of the greatest happiness for the greatest number

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LARD01 violence and drugs

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  1. LARD01 violence and drugs (a special composite for 2010)

  2. General Issues -- Liberal Dilemmas • Reconciling individual freedom and social responsibility • Early approach -- Bentham and the pursuit of the greatest happiness for the greatest number • Later approach -- JS Mill -- protect minority rights, act on long-term interests • Identifying social harm, weighing costs and benefits of legislation

  3. State vs market • Violent leisure (and porn and drugs) as free choice, best left to the market to regulate or… • A kind of ‘market failure’? Exploitation? A result of asymmetric power? Addicts are not rational consumers? • Long-term ‘bad’ or degrading effects as a kind of un-priced ‘public bad’, ‘de-merit goods’? • Can market mechanisms recover these costs?

  4. The regulation of violence • What is violence? ‘Good’ violence? What sort of violence is regulated? (e.g. is making people redundant ‘violence’?) • Sporting violence. Is sport a special case (Kerr). Does watching violent sport make us violent? • Why do people do violence? The pleasures of violence? The need for violence? Social/cultural conditions or personal blame? • Contradictions and partial resolutions

  5. What is a drug? • Chemical, medical or recreational drugs, legal definitions based on social harm etc. • Good drugs and bad drugs, legal drugs and illegal drugs -- consistent divisions? • The problems with alcohol. • Defining harmful drugs -- Addiction? Health hazards? Social costs? Drugs used by minorities?

  6. Drugs in Sport • What is a performance-enhancing drug? • What is an illegal performance enhancing drug? • Is illegal drug-taking widespread? • Should we and can we regulate drug usage?

  7. Policy implications • Regulating ‘harmful’ drugs --protecting the vulnerable or forbidding pleasures? • Legal remedies or cultural ones (e.g. informed choice, health and safety) • Informing people of the risks in ‘risk society’ (risks have been individualised and privatised) • Principles or practice (Colebatch)? -- knowledge and detection, conviction variables, perimeter policing?

  8. Media effects • What are the effects of media – eg on violent behaviour? Why is it so difficult to gain evidence? (Buckingham, Belson, Birmingham Uni) • Recent American studies – Anderson & Dill, Vandewater • How is media violence regulated in Britain -- indirect regulation and e.g. the BBFC • Dominant tastes? Moral panics? (e.g. the James Bulger affair –see Buckingham)

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