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Constructing White-Collar Crime: Rationalities, Communication, Power.Joachim Savelsberg , Peter Bruhl
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 100, Heft 4, S. 1094-1096
ISSN: 1537-5390
Crime and Money: Motivation and Opportunity in a Monetarized Economy
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 35, Heft 6, S. 827-836
ISSN: 1552-3381
Crime and Money: Motivation and Opportunity in a Monetarized Economy
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 827
ISSN: 0002-7642
Competition and the Structure of Industrial Society: Reply to Braithwaite
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 94, Heft 3, S. 632-636
ISSN: 1537-5390
Toward an Integrated Theory of White-Collar Crime
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 93, Heft 2, S. 406-439
ISSN: 1537-5390
The Dynamics of Narcotic Abstinence: an Interactionist Theory
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 555-564
ISSN: 1533-8525
The Myth of Addiction
In: Journal of drug issues: JDI, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 135-141
ISSN: 1945-1369
The pursuit of a personal lifestyle is motivated and directed by the myths, definitions, and ideas which make it meaningful to the individual participant. The central feature of the concept of addiction is the belief in the tremendous power of narcotic drugs—the power to produce a chemical euphoria or to "hook" the careless user. Once addicted, the user is believed to be compelled to continue using narcotics regardless of the personal consequences. It is the contention of this paper that this conception is erroneous. It is not the narcotics themselves which produce addiction and its associated behavioral syndrome, but the use of narcotics (or the belief that one is using narcotics) combined with an acceptance of the conventional definition of addiction. Since the user is convinced that the development of physical habituation will create a compulsive craving for narcotics, it in fact produces that result and he begins to behave in the manner expected of an addict.