Video: David Best on Criminal Justice and Research

Footnotes

1) Paper: When two dark figures collide: Evidence and discourse on drug-related crime [Alex Stevens]

Sage Journals Online summary

Alex Stevens University of Kent 2007.

2) Paper: DOES TREATING PEOPLE INCREASE THEIR CHANCE FOR ABSTINENCE? [DR D BEST, J LOARING and S GHUFRAN June 05, 2008]

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3) Paper: The War on Drugs: A War on Drug Users [Buchanan J Young L (2000)]

The War on Drugs – A War on Drug Users Buchanan J Young L (2000)

Drugs: Education, Prevention Policy Vol. 7 No.4 2000 pp 409-422

Julian Buchanan

4) Paper: Missing Links: Problem Drug Use and Social Exclusion

Missing Links: Problem Drug Use and Social Exclusion [Buchanan J 2004]

Probation Journal Special Edition on Problem Drug Use Vol 51 No.4 pp.387-397

Julian Buchanan

Buchanan J

5) Drug Interventions Programme

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