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Policing County Lines: County Lines [This book explores the policing responses to the specific drug market context of County Lines. It is only right, therefore, that detailed consideration is given to understanding what this supply practice is. Because of the vast amount of attention it has received over recent years, it would be no exaggeration to state that County Lines has become not just a high-profile UK drug market development but a social problem of national significance (Coliandris 2015; Robinson et al. 2019). At the most fundamental level, it involves the migratory practices of drug supply networks who, plying their trade in the sale of what are commonly referred to as ‘problem’ drugs of heroin and crack, travel out from their native major urban conurbations to establish retail operations in provincial satellite areas. Labelled under the banner of ‘County Lines’ and conforming to a distinct supply methodology regarding how they conduct their ‘business’ (Spicer 2019), the burgeoning presence and activities of these groups are argued to represent an evolution in how street-level heroin and crack markets now operate in many towns across the UK (Coomber and Moyle 2018). It is worth reiterating that it is the wider drug market conception of County Lines that this book is concerned with, rather than some of its specific characteristics such as the involvement of young people.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-54192-7
Pages
19 –52
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-54193-4_2
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[This book explores the policing responses to the specific drug market context of County Lines. It is only right, therefore, that detailed consideration is given to understanding what this supply practice is. Because of the vast amount of attention it has received over recent years, it would be no exaggeration to state that County Lines has become not just a high-profile UK drug market development but a social problem of national significance (Coliandris 2015; Robinson et al. 2019). At the most fundamental level, it involves the migratory practices of drug supply networks who, plying their trade in the sale of what are commonly referred to as ‘problem’ drugs of heroin and crack, travel out from their native major urban conurbations to establish retail operations in provincial satellite areas. Labelled under the banner of ‘County Lines’ and conforming to a distinct supply methodology regarding how they conduct their ‘business’ (Spicer 2019), the burgeoning presence and activities of these groups are argued to represent an evolution in how street-level heroin and crack markets now operate in many towns across the UK (Coomber and Moyle 2018). It is worth reiterating that it is the wider drug market conception of County Lines that this book is concerned with, rather than some of its specific characteristics such as the involvement of young people.]

Published: Oct 31, 2020

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