Policing county lines : responses to evolving provincial drug markets /
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in risk, crime and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1: Introduction
- The Realities of Drug Markets
- Policing County Lines
- Policing Drug Markets: A Research Agenda
- Book Structure
- References
- 2: County Lines
- Conceptualising 'Import' Markets
- What's in a Name?
- The Phenomenon's (Official) Development
- County Lines as 'Chronocentrism'?
- A Product of Saturation?
- The Structure of County Lines Networks
- The Involvement of Young People
- Local Harms
- The Advancement of Cuckooing
- Conclusion
- References
- 3: Policing Drug Markets
- Pyramids and Mirrors: The Organisation of Drugs Policing
- Operationalising Drug Market Policing
- Sweeping Up
- Cracking Down
- Harmful, Ineffective and Symbolic?
- The Effectiveness of Crackdowns
- Symbolic Policing
- The Case for Change: Applying Harm Reduction Principles to the Policing of Drug Markets
- Shaping Drug Markets by Focusing on Externalities
- A Realistic Approach?
- The Way Forward?
- Conclusion
- References
- 4: Navigating a 'Newsy' Field
- Exploring the World of County Lines
- Going Backstage
- Navigating My Way Through the Field
- Insider or Outsider?
- Ethical Molehills
- Conclusion
- References
- 5: Policing a Crisis?
- Dealers 'Out of Place'
- Dirty Business
- The Threat to Young People
- Violence as Instrumental or Expressive?
- Partnerships and Control Signals
- 'Another Pair of Eyes and Ears'
- Drug Services as the Difficult Partner
- Diverging from the Norm?
- Conclusion
- References
- 6: New Tactics
- Put on Hold: Introducing the DDTRO
- A Blunt Tool
- The Symbolism of the DDTRO
- From 'Pushers' to 'Enslavers'
- Practical Barriers
- The Symbolism of Modern Slavery Convictions
- Conclusion
- References
- 7: More of the Same?
- Time to Crackdown
- Crackdowns as Weak Signals of Control
- Days of Action
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Not So 'Hot' Hotspots
- Welfare Checks as Double-Edged Swords
- Conclusion
- References
- 8: Drug Market Priorities
- Netting the 'Top Boys': Variance and the Case of the 'Ideal' Line
- A Time for Discretion?
- The 'Value-Neutral' Problem
- An Organic Shift to Harm Reduction Policing?
- Prioritisation as Harm Reduction?
- Mitigating the 'Value-Neutral' Problem
- External Perceptions
- Guiding Crackdowns
- Prioritisation in Practice
- Prioritisation in the Fast-Paced World of County Lines
- Conclusion
- References
- 9: Conclusion
- Impure Market Evolutions: The Advancement of County Lines
- The Symbolic Face of Drug Market Policing
- Organic Shifts Towards Harm Reduction Policing
- 'We Can't Arrest Our Way Out of This': Some Concluding Thoughts
- References
- Index