Background: A stigma is a long-lasting mark of social disgrace that has a profound effect on
interactions between the stigmatized and the unstigmatized. Factors governing the extent of …

Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as 'dangerous drugs', to be controlled by
the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others–from alcohol and tobacco …

Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive
Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug investigations, based on …

Background and aims Incarceration produces a specific public health threat for drug
overdose, and correctional settings do not offer medication for opioid use disorder. This …

This article draws upon two different ethnographic studies–one based in Sweden, the other
in the United Kingdom–to explore how private security officers working in a stigmatized …

The policing of local drug markets in England often takes the form of specific, high-profile,
crackdown operations which themselves are mostly a generic, periodic response to …

In the introduction to the Council of Europe's European Code of Police Ethics published in
September 2001, the Committee of Ministers identified a number of factors that highlight the …

1. Literature review; 2. Analysis of legislation; and 3. In-depth qualitative interviews and
analytical case studies based on interviews. The literature review involved analysing …

Research Summary We conducted a retrospective, quasi‐experimental study of a police
naloxone program to examine individual outcomes following nonfatal overdose where either …

Many young people who use drugs are structurally vulnerable to policing powers given the
ongoing criminalization of drug possession. Police authority limits and the expression of that …