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doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.488pmid: N/A
This article describes the impact of street-level law enforcement on Australia's principal heroin market. Based on three years of research, including interviews and extended ethnographic fieldwork, it uses data on drug-use, risk practices, crime, and policing to examine the relationship between law enforcement and harm minimization. Findings suggest that the 'successes' of police crackdowns and their impact on drug markets (including threats to public health and community safety as a result of geographical, social, and substance displacement) may be won at substantial costs, raising doubts as to their value. Oxford University Press « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Br J Criminol (1999) 39 (4): 488-512. doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.488 » Abstract Free Full Text (PDF) Free Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Maher, L. Articles by Dixon, D. Search for related content Related Content Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue November 2015 55 (6) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Reviewing Policy Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journals Career Network Published on behalf of Centre for Crime & Justice Studies Impact factor: 1.442 5-Yr impact factor: 1.816 Eigenfactor: 0.00436 Article Influence score: 1.048 Editor Sandra Walklate View full editorial board For Authors Instructions to authors Self archiving policy Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements Widget Get a widget
doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.513pmid: N/A
The vast majority of research on drug dealers focuses on men, while most studies on women in the drug economy focus on subordinated drug users. We know very little about attributes or skills required for successful drug dealing may apply primarily to male dealers, while allegedly female attributes regarded by men as handicapping women may be irrelevant or even valuable resources. This in-depth, observational study of successful women drug dealers in Melbourne indicates that skills and orientations associated with familial relations play a key part in the most sensitive aspects of such business. Conversely, ruthlessness and violence are comparatively peripheral, even though the women demonstrated that these were well within their repertoires of action. Oxford University Press « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Br J Criminol (1999) 39 (4): 513-530. doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.513 » Abstract Free Full Text (PDF) Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Denton, B. Articles by O'Malley, P. Search for related content Related Content Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue November 2015 55 (6) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Reviewing Policy Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journals Career Network Published on behalf of Centre for Crime & Justice Studies Impact factor: 1.442 5-Yr impact factor: 1.816 Eigenfactor: 0.00436 Article Influence score: 1.048 Editor Sandra Walklate View full editorial board For Authors Instructions to authors Self archiving policy Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements Widget Get a widget
doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.531pmid: N/A
The striking reduction in homicide in New York City between 1991 and 1997 has been claimed as a great success for a 'new policing tactic dubbed 'zero tolerance' - the aggressive enforcement of minor offences. The evidence that changes in policing made 'all the difference' is largely circumstantial, however, Homicide rates were at an all-time high in 1990-91 and had begun to decline before any radical changes in policing policy were instituted. The 1985-91 'murder spike' has been attributed largely to the simultaneous expanding crack cocaine 'epidemic' so the subsequent reduction in murder is related logically to the contraction of crack cocaine markets in the 1990s. There is some tentative support for the impact of policing on an already falling crime rate, but the changes in policing between 1991 and 1997 cannot adequately be described as 'zero tolerance'. The author argues that the 'New York story' has been over-simplified and over-sold, and that 'zero tolerance' is an inappropriate language for police policy or practice. Oxford University Press « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Br J Criminol (1999) 39 (4): 531-554. doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.531 » Abstract Free Full Text (PDF) Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Bowling, B. Search for related content Related Content Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue November 2015 55 (6) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Reviewing Policy Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journals Career Network Published on behalf of Centre for Crime & Justice Studies Impact factor: 1.442 5-Yr impact factor: 1.816 Eigenfactor: 0.00436 Article Influence score: 1.048 Editor Sandra Walklate View full editorial board For Authors Instructions to authors Self archiving policy Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements Widget Get a widget
doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.555pmid: N/A
A number of supply and demand-side indicators provide support for heroin's 're-incubation' in an era of crack cocaine's decline. The present paper assesses the extent to which these and other trends converge with reports of heroin market participants operating on the streets of a large midwestern American city. Focal areas of investigation include quality, price and drug use conduct norms. Conceptualization centres on the short and long-term implications of heroin's reported resurgence on emergent street drug markets. Oxford University Press « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Br J Criminol (1999) 39 (4): 555-574. doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.555 » Abstract Free Full Text (PDF) Free Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Jacobs, B. Search for related content Related Content Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue November 2015 55 (6) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Reviewing Policy Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journals Career Network Published on behalf of Centre for Crime & Justice Studies Impact factor: 1.442 5-Yr impact factor: 1.816 Eigenfactor: 0.00436 Article Influence score: 1.048 Editor Sandra Walklate View full editorial board For Authors Instructions to authors Self archiving policy Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements Widget Get a widget
SM Gore, Drugs Survey Investigators' Consortium
doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.575pmid: N/A
The UK government's ten-year drugs strategy was announced in April 1998. It requires effective monitoring. This paper indicates that surveys used currently in the UK for drugs monitoring are underpowered. It further indicates - through a meta-analysis which pooled comparisons of reported drugs use by 16-24 year olds - that added value can be obtained from the existing data sets. For example, previously unrecognized and substantial increases in 16-24 year olds' reported use of amphetamine or ecstasy were revealed by pooling trends across UK general population surveys. These increases of one-third took place in the mid-1990s and were revealed because secondary analysis led to increased precision. Even with this enhanced precision, the conclusion remains that current monitoring strategies are underpowered. Besides enlarged general population surveys, it is recommended that for the monitoring of young people's injecting or use of heroin alternative surveys are commissioned which target higher risk sentinel groups, such as young people living in deprived areas, or young offenders. Survey sizes will need to be larger still, and survey sites appropriately selected, for regional variation in illegal drugs use to be properly addressed. Oxford University Press « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Br J Criminol (1999) 39 (4): 575-584. doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.575 » Abstract Free Full Text (PDF) Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Gore, S. Articles by Drugs Survey Investigators' Consortium Search for related content Related Content Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue November 2015 55 (6) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Reviewing Policy Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journals Career Network Published on behalf of Centre for Crime & Justice Studies Impact factor: 1.442 5-Yr impact factor: 1.816 Eigenfactor: 0.00436 Article Influence score: 1.048 Editor Sandra Walklate View full editorial board For Authors Instructions to authors Self archiving policy Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements Widget Get a widget
doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.585pmid: N/A
The control of psychoactive substances presents a serious concern for policy makers who must take into account the allocation of scarce public resources resulting from their interventions. Much of the debate in this respect is carried out within an informational vacuum. This paper presents an analysis of the survey data currently available to policy makers. We consider the British Crime Survey (BCS) which is the primary source of UK drug use information and observe serious limitations to what it can provide. We find that it does not allow us to effectively analyse the problem of escalating drug use, nor can we identify the point of initiation into the drugs market or the duration of use. We recommend that some of these observational problems could be overcome if the BCS drug questions were presented in the reverse order. However, based on the three drug use questions currently presented in the BCS, we offer an analysis of past and present drug use in terms of socio-economic factors that are associated with use at the extensive margin. Oxford University Press « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Br J Criminol (1999) 39 (4): 585-608. doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.585 » Abstract Free Full Text (PDF) Free Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by MacDonald, Z. Search for related content Related Content Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue November 2015 55 (6) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Reviewing Policy Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journals Career Network Published on behalf of Centre for Crime & Justice Studies Impact factor: 1.442 5-Yr impact factor: 1.816 Eigenfactor: 0.00436 Article Influence score: 1.048 Editor Sandra Walklate View full editorial board For Authors Instructions to authors Self archiving policy Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements Widget Get a widget
R Hammersley, J Ditton, I Smith, E Short
doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.625pmid: N/A
To establish patterns of MDMA (ecstasy) use and relate these to other substance use, health and social problems related to ecstasy use, a multi-site chain-referral sample was recruited via the 'dance scene' in Glasgow. Two hundred and twenty-nine participants were interviewed, including 20 controls and 209 people who had used ecstasy at least once. All users used ecstasy in the context of polydrug use, in particular stimulant and hallucinogen use were significantly related to ecstasy use. Extent of ecstasy use was not related to sociodemographic data, but the group were substantially involved in illegal activities including other drug use, drug selling, buying stolen goods and a range of fiddles and criminal activities. Respondents were classified in terms of their frequency and quantity of ecstasy use (into light, medium and heavy groups) and in terms of whether or not their use pattern over the year before interview was stable or erratic. At most, users took ecstasy about once a week. Extent of drug use in general, rather than ecstasy use in particular, was predictive of more days' illness, self-attributed depression and experiences of paranoia and memory loss. Some people binged on ecstasy, mostly by taking multiple tablets and tended to binge, but others had mixed alcohol and other drugs. These data do not suggest that problems after ecstasy use are either common, or related to extent of use in a straightforward way. Pattern of ecstasy use may be important, but must be considered in context of overall substance use. Oxford University Press « Previous | Next Article » Table of Contents This Article Br J Criminol (1999) 39 (4): 625-647. doi: 10.1093/bjc/39.4.625 » Abstract Free Full Text (PDF) Free Classifications Article Services Article metrics Alert me when cited Alert me if corrected Find similar articles Similar articles in Web of Science Add to my archive Download citation Request Permissions Citing Articles Load citing article information Citing articles via CrossRef Citing articles via Scopus Citing articles via Web of Science Citing articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Hammersley, R. Articles by Short, E. Search for related content Related Content Load related web page information Share Email this article CiteULike Delicious Facebook Google+ Mendeley Twitter What's this? Search this journal: Advanced » Current Issue November 2015 55 (6) Alert me to new issues The Journal About this journal Reviewing Policy Publishers' Books for Review Rights & Permissions Dispatch date of the next issue We are mobile – find out more This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journals Career Network Published on behalf of Centre for Crime & Justice Studies Impact factor: 1.442 5-Yr impact factor: 1.816 Eigenfactor: 0.00436 Article Influence score: 1.048 Editor Sandra Walklate View full editorial board For Authors Instructions to authors Self archiving policy Alerting Services Email table of contents Email Advance Access CiteTrack XML RSS feed Corporate Services Advertising sales Reprints Supplements Widget Get a widget
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