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Drug-Crime Connections


Drug-Crime Connections

Hardback by Bennett, Trevor (University of Glamorgan); Holloway, Katy (University of Glamorgan)

Drug-Crime Connections

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ISBN:
9780521867573
Publication Date:
1 Oct 2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
362 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 26 Apr - 1 May 2024
Drug-Crime Connections

Description

Drug-Crime Connections challenges the assumption that there is a widespread association between drug use and crime. Instead, it argues that there are many highly specific connections. The authors draw together in a single volume a wide range of findings from a study of nearly 5,000 arrestees interviewed as part of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) programme. It provides an in-depth study of the nature of drug-crime connections, as well as an investigation into drug use generally among criminals and the kinds of crimes that they commit. They explore topics that previously have fallen outside the drug-crime debate, such as gender and drugs, ethnicity and drugs, gangs, guns, drug markets, and treatment needs. The book provides both an up-to-date review of the literature and a concise summary of a major study on the connection between drug use and crime.

Contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. Background; 2. Research methods; Part II. Drug Misuse among Criminals: 3. Drug misuse among arrestees; 4. Drugs and health; Part III. Drug-Crime Affinities: 5. Drugs and crime; 6. Disaggregating the drugs-crime relationship; 7. Multiple drug use and crime; 8. Users' perceptions of the drugs-crime link; Part IV. Special Topics: 9. Gender, drugs, and crime; 10. Ethnicity, drugs, and crime; 11. Gangs and gang members; 12. Gun possession and use; 13. Drug markets; 14. Assisted desistance and treatment needs; 15. International comparisons; Part V. Conclusions: 16. Conclusions.

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