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Policing County LinesIntroduction

Policing County Lines: Introduction [The hidden world of illicit drug markets, including how they change over time and the role of the police in responding to them, has been a principal concern of criminologists for decades. Across time and place, the buying and selling of illicit substances, the social terrain these exchanges are situated within and the relationship between those transgressing and enforcing drug laws have regularly been the focus of inquiry. Part of the reason for the popularity of these criminological endeavours is how they often allow for scrutiny into state responses to social problems and marginalised groups. Half a century ago, for example, Jock Young (The drugtakers: The social meaning of drug use. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1971) told a theoretically sophisticated ethnographic story of how cannabis users living in the Notting Hill area of London carved out a subcultural existence just below the surface of mainstream society. By studying their dynamic relationship with the police, wider society and the resulting forces of ‘fantasy’ and ‘deviancy amplification’, he classically outlined the types of social interactions and processes that can spiral out of the application of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. More recently, Travis Linnemann (Meth wars: Police, media, power. New York: New York University Press, 2016) has interrogated the so-called meth epidemic in parts of rural America, critically examining the cultural roles of various criminal justice and societal institutions in constructing the ‘meth imaginary’ that mediates how the problem is commonly perceived to exist.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-54192-7
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1 –18
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10.1007/978-3-030-54193-4_1
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[The hidden world of illicit drug markets, including how they change over time and the role of the police in responding to them, has been a principal concern of criminologists for decades. Across time and place, the buying and selling of illicit substances, the social terrain these exchanges are situated within and the relationship between those transgressing and enforcing drug laws have regularly been the focus of inquiry. Part of the reason for the popularity of these criminological endeavours is how they often allow for scrutiny into state responses to social problems and marginalised groups. Half a century ago, for example, Jock Young (The drugtakers: The social meaning of drug use. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1971) told a theoretically sophisticated ethnographic story of how cannabis users living in the Notting Hill area of London carved out a subcultural existence just below the surface of mainstream society. By studying their dynamic relationship with the police, wider society and the resulting forces of ‘fantasy’ and ‘deviancy amplification’, he classically outlined the types of social interactions and processes that can spiral out of the application of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. More recently, Travis Linnemann (Meth wars: Police, media, power. New York: New York University Press, 2016) has interrogated the so-called meth epidemic in parts of rural America, critically examining the cultural roles of various criminal justice and societal institutions in constructing the ‘meth imaginary’ that mediates how the problem is commonly perceived to exist.]

Published: Oct 31, 2020

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