Consuming risks: Harm minimization and the government of ‘drug-users’

Governable Places: Readings on Governmentality and Crime Control

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 191-214

  O’Malley, Pat ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429427114-8     Document Type: Chapter

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