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Tough Choices - Risk, Security and the Criminalization of Drug Policy (Hardcover)
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Tough Choices - Risk, Security and the Criminalization of Drug Policy (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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In recent years, British drug policy has undergone a
transformation: tackling 'drug-driven' crime through criminal
justice interventions has arguably become the central priority and
focus. The 'criminal justice turn', as the authors refer to current
UK drugs policy, is based on three simple and linked assumptions:
drug-driven property crime is a major driver of local area crime
rates, especially in deprived neighbourhoods; the criminal justice
system can be used to target these drug-motivated offenders and
direct them into treatment; and treatment can lead to significant
reductions in their offending. Tough Choices: Risk, Security and
the Criminalization of Drug Policy explores a series of questions
about the 'criminal justice' turn in British drugs policy, from why
it happened at all to what led policy to unfold in the way that it
did, by analyzing policy documents and over 200 interviews
conducted with key players in the policy development and
implementation process. At the practice level, the authors explore
how the strategic vision of the drug-crime 'problem' has shaped the
ways in which drug-using offenders are identified, targeted and
managed - in other words, why the implementation of the Drug
Interventions Programme on the ground has taken the forms that it
has. This is addressed through a detailed examination of practice
in three local areas. Both the emergence of this new policy
direction and its implementation in practice can best be understood
as part of a wider transformation in governance in which risk-based
thinking has become central to the ways in which we seek to address
our contemporary insecurities. The book is based on a 30-month
ESRC-funded research project on the Drug Interventions Programme
and draws on the extensive empirical data generated during the
project.
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