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Hello, it's now almost a year since we learned of the sad death of Jock Young, a wonderfully

warm and considerate human being and a very fine criminologist.

Now, although I've got considerable respect for Jock's theoretical writing, I chiefly

remember him for the empirical manner in which back in the, must have been back in the late 60s,

he subverted a number of common assumptions

about drug takers and drug dealers. One such assumption was that the expanding use of cannabis

at the time could be attributed to West Indian Pushes. It was a myth which was regularly

reinforced in the media by courtroom stories of how this or that good living upright citizen

had been offered cannabis by an unscrupulous Caribbean dealer who was anxious to get them hooked.

Well, Jock was able to show that defendants in Cannabis cases produce this defence precisely because they knew in advance of its likely acceptability to

magistrates because they knew that their story complimented an existing

stereotype. But then in the world of drugs and drug dealing it's difficult to avoid stereotypes.

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