Add to ORKGRecent British drug policy has increasingly focused on ‘ problem drug users ’ , namely users of heroin and/or crack-cocaine who are involved in acquisitive offending. The overarching objective of the new drug policy agenda is to develop and enhance the pathways between the criminal justice system and drug treatment services, with the aim of reducing this ‘ drug-related ’ crime. The emphasis on crime reduction, and on drug treatment in the criminal justice system, has led some to term this development the ‘ criminalization ’ of drug policy. In this paper, this new policy direction will be examined. An explanatory account for this ‘ criminalizing ’ turn will be set out, drawing on theoretical debates about the politics of risk and securit...
The global War on Drugs has successfully constructed the ‘anti-drug normativity’ in international la...
The drugs law enforcment policies of the Governments of Britain and the United States of America hav...
Throughout Europe--from town halls and regional governments, through national Parliaments and minist...
Recent developments in the drug field have prompted claims that criminal justice has displaced healt...
This paper sets out to make sense of government responses to young people and drug use through an ap...
The history of narcotics use and drug control in the U.S. before passage of the Harrison Act in 1914...
Alcohol policy and illicit drugs policy are typically presented as separate and different in academi...
Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on il...
During the 1980s illegal drug use in Britain appeared to be increasing at an alarming rate and sprea...
The debate regarding the ideal response to organised crime is quickly evolving, although it remains ...
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--re...
This article is concerned with the claim made by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Un...
John Collins sets the current hegemonic drug prohibition regime in its historical context and sugges...
The drugs issue in prisons and the making of prison drugs policy have become global concerns. Drugs,...
This article examines the increasing interconnections between drugs, crime, punishment and treatment...
The global War on Drugs has successfully constructed the ‘anti-drug normativity’ in international la...
The drugs law enforcment policies of the Governments of Britain and the United States of America hav...
Throughout Europe--from town halls and regional governments, through national Parliaments and minist...
Recent developments in the drug field have prompted claims that criminal justice has displaced healt...
This paper sets out to make sense of government responses to young people and drug use through an ap...
The history of narcotics use and drug control in the U.S. before passage of the Harrison Act in 1914...
Alcohol policy and illicit drugs policy are typically presented as separate and different in academi...
Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on il...
During the 1980s illegal drug use in Britain appeared to be increasing at an alarming rate and sprea...
The debate regarding the ideal response to organised crime is quickly evolving, although it remains ...
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--re...
This article is concerned with the claim made by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Un...
John Collins sets the current hegemonic drug prohibition regime in its historical context and sugges...
The drugs issue in prisons and the making of prison drugs policy have become global concerns. Drugs,...
This article examines the increasing interconnections between drugs, crime, punishment and treatment...
The global War on Drugs has successfully constructed the ‘anti-drug normativity’ in international la...
The drugs law enforcment policies of the Governments of Britain and the United States of America hav...
Throughout Europe--from town halls and regional governments, through national Parliaments and minist...