Drugs and crime / Philip Bean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bean, Philip, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse and crime--Great Britain.

Drug abuse and crime.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiii, 304 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

This book provides an authoritative and much-needed overview of the range of issues associated with drugs-related crime. The author pays particular attention to policing drugs and drug markets and the way they operate, so that a central theme of the book is the importance of reducing supply at local, national and international levels. Accordingly there are chapters on the drugs-crime link, sentencing offenders, policing drug offenders including the use of informers, coercive treatment, trafficking and laundering, and on gender issues, including the treatment of women drug users." This updated and expanded new edition builds upon the strengths of earlier editions of the book. It has been updated throughout, includes new information on police tactics such as 'stop and search' and 'test purchase', and has an entirely new chapter on the legalisation debate.

Contents:

Drugs and crime: an overview

Sentencing drug offenders

Drugs and crime: theoretical formulations

Treatment in criminal justice

Drug courts and drug testing

Trafficking, laundering and confiscation

Drug markets and policing

Informers and corruption

Women, drugs and crime

The legalisation debate

Suggestions for the way forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415657303

041565730X

9780415657310

0415657318

OCLC:

858672894