{"id":2259,"date":"2017-02-06T09:16:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2017-02-06T09:16:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:16:39","slug":"recently-published-social-capital-and-cannabis-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2017\/02\/06\/recently-published-social-capital-and-cannabis-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently published: \u2018Social capital and cannabis supply\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/voluntourisminstitute.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/journal-of-sociology.gif\" alt=\"Image result for journal of sociology\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CJRC researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.qut.edu.au\/staff\/scott26\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Scott<\/a> from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently co-authored an article titled<em> \u2018Social capital and cannabis supply\u2019<\/em> for the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/home\/jos\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Sociology.<\/a><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The paper argues that the distribution of cannabis in Australia is best understood with reference to the concept of social supply, where a supplier, not considered to be a \u2018drug dealer proper\u2019, brokers, facilitates or sells drugs, for little or no financial gain to friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The article draws on data from surveys and interviews with 200 young Australian cannabis users, almost all of whom had also supplied cannabis at some point in their lifetime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Using the concept of social capital, the paper argues argue that drug distribution might best be understood in relation to drug communities, as opposed to markets,\u00a0describing the features of social organisation that exist between people within social networks and related implications that such features might have in terms of social harm and well-being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To access the full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/1440783316688342\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJRC researcher John Scott from the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, has recently co-authored an article titled \u2018Social capital and cannabis supply\u2019 for the\u00a0Journal of Sociology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9703,9696,9712],"tags":[15229,11532,9813,1674],"class_list":{"0":"post-2259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-our-research","8":"category-publications","9":"category-staff","10":"tag-cannabis","11":"tag-drugs","12":"tag-johnscott","13":"tag-journal"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}