Video: Toby Seddon on the cost - benefit of a criminal justice approach to drug policy

Footnotes

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

When two dark figures collide: Evidence and discourse on drug-related crime

Alex Stevens University of Kent

Critical Social Policy, Vol. 27, No. 1, 77-99 (2007)

2) Report: Reducing Drug Use, Reducing Reoffending [UKDPC March 2008]

'Reducing Drug Use, Reducing Reoffending

Are programmes for problem drug-using offenders in the UK supported by the evidence?'

UKDPC March 2008

3) Book: The Culture of Control: Crime and social order in contemporary society [David Garland 2001]

The Culture of Control: Crime and social order in contemporary society

David Garland

OUP 2001

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