By Ellie Harding, MA candidate in Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology, Swansea University ‘We are cutting the head off the snake and taking down the kingpins behind these deadly supply lines…Drug abuse and addiction ruins communities, devastates lives and tears families apart.’ So announced Priti Patel in her speech to the annual Conservative Party conference…Continue Reading “The disposable foot soldiers of crime” – Media, County Lines and Moral Panics
Cultivating Change: The Contemporary Challenges of Studying Cannabis Regulation in Jamaica
Branwen Lloyd* At the end of summer 2019 the GDPO was successful in an application to Swansea University’s Higher Education Funding Council for Wales – Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) scheme. The GCRF is a £1.5 billion fund announced by the UK Government in 2015 to support cutting-edge research that addresses the challenges faced by…Continue Reading Cultivating Change: The Contemporary Challenges of Studying Cannabis Regulation in Jamaica
Drugs, Prisons and ‘Unintended Consequences’ – Does drug interdiction drive drug-related harms?
Rick Lines, Olivia Howells and Daniel Webb* The availability of drugs in prisons around the world is well documented. In Europe alone, up to seventy percent of people in prison have used an illicit drug. In Canada, forty-eight percent of prisoners in federal correctional institutions have had ‘problems’ with drugs. In Australia, one in six…Continue Reading Drugs, Prisons and ‘Unintended Consequences’ – Does drug interdiction drive drug-related harms?
Measuring Drug Policy Outcomes: Intersections with Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The following blog was first posted by Nazlee Maghsoudi, ICSDP, 07/05/2018 Original link; http://www.icsdp.org/measuring_drug_policy_outcomes_intersections_with_human_rights_and_the_sustainable_development_goals_sdgs For the sixth consecutive year, a side event was held at the 61st Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to continue the global discussion on reprioritizing the objectives and indicators used to evaluate drug policies. Pic 1Recent years have…Continue Reading Measuring Drug Policy Outcomes: Intersections with Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)