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Policing County LinesPolicing Drug Markets

Policing County Lines: Policing Drug Markets [Having critically outlined the specific drug supply context of County Lines, this chapter considers theoretically the policing of illicit drug markets. An often highly contentious area of law enforcement, for the past half century, policing has remained the principle way that drug markets and the various actors involved in them are responded to officially by the state. Among other things, the role of the police as the visible representation of the ‘war on drugs’ stresses the importance of understanding and analysing how their work in this area is actually undertaken. If illegal drug markets and the way they operate can be considered as inextricably allied with the policy of prohibition, it is arguably only right that attention is trained acutely on those on the opposing side who, as Young (The drugtakers: The social meaning of drug use. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1971, p. 28) put it, “man the barricades which society sets up between itself and the deviant”.] 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
ISBN
978-3-030-54192-7
Pages
53 –88
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-54193-4_3
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[Having critically outlined the specific drug supply context of County Lines, this chapter considers theoretically the policing of illicit drug markets. An often highly contentious area of law enforcement, for the past half century, policing has remained the principle way that drug markets and the various actors involved in them are responded to officially by the state. Among other things, the role of the police as the visible representation of the ‘war on drugs’ stresses the importance of understanding and analysing how their work in this area is actually undertaken. If illegal drug markets and the way they operate can be considered as inextricably allied with the policy of prohibition, it is arguably only right that attention is trained acutely on those on the opposing side who, as Young (The drugtakers: The social meaning of drug use. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1971, p. 28) put it, “man the barricades which society sets up between itself and the deviant”.]

Published: Oct 31, 2020

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