Understanding Drug Dealing And Illicit Drug Markets

Author : Tammy C. Ayres,Craig Ancrum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351010221

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Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets by Tammy C. Ayres,Craig Ancrum Pdf

This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets. It explores the motives and drivers of those involved in drug supply and dispels common and stereotypical myths and misconceptions surrounding illegal drug markets and those who operate within them. The drug dealer has become one of our foremost contemporary ‘folk devils’. Those who trade in substances prohibited by law are the subject of array of inaccurate myths and urban legends. Criminology has tended either to shoehorn drug dealers into neat typologies or portray them as ‘victims’ of an uncaring, predatory post-modern society. In reality, we know relatively little about the complex and diverse world of drug markets and our concentration inevitably falls on low-end ‘retail’ dealers who operate in the most visible sectors of the illegal economy. Bringing together an international group of experts, this book considers perspectives from around the world, including UK, USA, South America, Spain, India and Australia. This book will be of interest to students and researchers across criminology, law, sociology, criminal justice and public health, and will be essential reading for those taking courses on drugs, drug markets and substance misuse.

Author : George F. Rengert,Jerry Ratcliffe,Sanjoy Chakravorty
Publisher : Criminal Justice Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1881798577

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Policing Illegal Drug Markets by George F. Rengert,Jerry Ratcliffe,Sanjoy Chakravorty Pdf

Author : Mangai Natarajan,J. M. Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1881798259

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Illegal Drug Markets by Mangai Natarajan,J. M. Hough Pdf

Fourteen papers analyse the operation of illegal drug markets and explore the implications for prevention policy. Topics include: crack distribution and abuse in New York; how young Britons obtain their drugs; the impact of heroin prescription in Switzerland; women as consumer of drug markets; toward a typology of illegal drug markets; heroin use and dealing in an English Asian community; Swedish drug markets and drug policy; Albanians and illicit drugs in Italy; a geographic analysis of illegal drug markets; drug trafficking as a cottage industry; understanding the structure of a drug trafficking organisation; performance management indicators and drug enforcement; and connecting drug policy and research on drug markets.

Author : Bernd Werse,Christiane Bernard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658103293

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Friendly Business by Bernd Werse,Christiane Bernard Pdf

Based on social research conducted in different countries in Europe, the U.S. and Australia, this anthology is the first to provide detailed insights into small-scale drug distribution. A main focus is the phenomenon of ‘social supply’, i.e. buying illicit drugs from friends, which covers a substantial part of the retail market. For cannabis users, cultivating their own plants is another important source. This volume deals with different social aspects of these non-profit-oriented forms of drug distribution, as well as profit-oriented small-scale dealing. While the illicit drug trade is commonly referred to as a world dominated by ruthless criminals, this book draws a different picture.

Author : Robert McLean,James A. Densley
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529223927

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Robbery in the Illegal Drugs Trade by Robert McLean,James A. Densley Pdf

Robbery can be planned or spontaneous and is a typically short, chaotic crime that is comparatively under-researched. This book transports the reader to the streets and focuses on the real-life narratives and motivations of the youth gang members and adult organized criminals immersed in this form of violence. Uniquely focusing on robberies involving drug dealers and users, this book considers the material and emotional gains and losses to offenders and victims, and offers policy recommendations to reduce occurrences of this common crime.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Understanding and Controlling the Demand for Illegal Drugs
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309159340

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Understanding the Demand for Illegal Drugs by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Committee on Understanding and Controlling the Demand for Illegal Drugs Pdf

Despite efforts to reduce drug consumption in the United States over the past 35 years, drugs are just as cheap and available as they have ever been. Cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines continue to cause great harm in the country, particularly in minority communities in the major cities. Marijuana use remains a part of adolescent development for about half of the country's young people, although there is controversy about the extent of its harm. Given the persistence of drug demand in the face of lengthy and expensive efforts to control the markets, the National Institute of Justice asked the National Research Council to undertake a study of current research on the demand for drugs in order to help better focus national efforts to reduce that demand. This study complements the 2003 book, Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs by giving more attention to the sources of demand and assessing the potential of demand-side interventions to make a substantial difference to the nation's drug problems. Understanding the Demand for Illegal Drugs therefore focuses tightly on demand models in the field of economics and evaluates the data needs for advancing this relatively undeveloped area of investigation.

Author : Alex Haroscopos
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drug abuse and crime
ISBN : 9781428994331

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Drug dealing in open-air markets by Alex Haroscopos Pdf

Author : Barbara Denton
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Crime
ISBN : 0868406279

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Dealing by Barbara Denton Pdf

Why do women become drug dealers? Are they simply attempting to finance their own addictions or are the reasons more complex? This unique book reveals a surprisingly complex set of stories about a diverse group of women who were attracted to the drug economy. Dealing focuses on 16 women who the author met at the former women's prison, Fairlea, in inner suburban Melbourne. Denton traces the lives of the women as they leave the prison, rejoin the drug economy, and sometimes return to jail. - This is a detailed account of why women enter the industry and how they run their drug businesses and manage complex relations with customers, workers and the criminal justice system. Dealing is a compelling account of an important part of Australia's illicit economy, vividly written and revealing.

Author : Martin Bouchard,Chris Wilkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317987505

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Illegal Markets and the Economics of Organized Crime by Martin Bouchard,Chris Wilkins Pdf

This book showcases recent advances in the theoretical and empirical understanding of the economic aspects of organised crime and illegal markets. It provides new insights into defining and quantifying the influence of organised crime by drawing on innovative approaches to studying criminal networks and organisations such as the Hells Angels. The book includes analysis of the structure of illegal drug markets from international leaders in the field. Finally the text includes empirical case studies of the diverse markets where organised crime is currently active including the illegal market for crystal methamphetamine in Australia, tiger products in China and the falcon and fur trades in Russia. This book was based on a special issue of Global Crime.

Author : Meropi Tzanetakis,Nigel South
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800438682

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Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets by Meropi Tzanetakis,Nigel South Pdf

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The digital revolution has transformed the selling and buying of illicit substances, upending how the market is policed and regulated, as explored in this book.

Author : George F Rengert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429976155

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The Geography Of Illegal Drugs by George F Rengert Pdf

The nightly news and other media provide a constant reminder of illegal drug transport over American borders and along routes between various U.S. cities. The general public is well aware that law enforcement efforts to address the foreign supply and trafficking of illegal drugs into the United States is an ongoing battle.This useful and readable compendium gives a fascinating account of how illegal drugs are transported into and around the United States and throughout its neighborhoods. Criminologist and geographer George F. Rengert takes a unique approach to the problem of illegal drug distribution and U.S. drug markets. Using maps and charts to illustrate his findings, Rengert applies spacial diffusion models to the illegal drug trade and explains why certain drugs are transported and found in different parts of the country. For example, the highest concentration of marijuana plants is not on either coast, but rather across the middle of the United States?throughout what is known as the corn belt. At the local level Rengert assesses the patterns and processes that interconnect drug sales and neighborhood deterioration and change.The book also addresses the important issues of how illegal drugs in this country operate on wholesale and retail levels and ways in which law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels contend with this widespread problem. Using ethnographic material to provide real-life examples, Rengert explores how drug dealers on the street expand spatially and predictably in their neighborhoods. He illustrates how this knowledge helps law enforcement in efforts to get these drugs off the streets.

Author : Nicholas Dorn,Karim Murji,Nigel South
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134960507

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Traffickers by Nicholas Dorn,Karim Murji,Nigel South Pdf

Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement. The chamelion reality of the world of drug trafficking is described in the words of traffickers and detectives. Drug enforcement combines the banal and spectacular in surveillance, covert operations and criminal intelligence. The war on drugs is a harbinger of wider changes in the organisation of policing and international cooperation. Traffickers explores the struggle that transforms policing and punishment as it stimulates the imagination.

Author : Matrix Knowledge Group,Great Britain. Home Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503583917

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The Illicit Drug Trade in the United Kingdom by Matrix Knowledge Group,Great Britain. Home Office Pdf

Author : Vincenzo Ruggiero,Nigel South
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134213382

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Eurodrugs by Vincenzo Ruggiero,Nigel South Pdf

First Published in 1995. This book is concerned with the topical and important subject of drug use, within the equally topical and important context of the changes occurring within European societies. The chapters in this book chart and discuss the growth of drug use in Europe (particularly use of heroin and more recently cocaine) and relate such changes to socio-cultural and political shifts.

Author : Brendan Marsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429754623

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The Logic of Violence by Brendan Marsh Pdf

Violence is widely associated with illegal drug markets, and is one of the features that can differentiate illegal capitalism from legitimate business. This book explores the perceived causes and functions of violence in an illegal drug market in Dublin City, Ireland. Understanding why violence occurs amongst participants in illegal drug markets is an ongoing part of the criminological endeavour. Scholars debate the various business and personal factors that contribute towards violent perpetration. Complex aspects of participants’ lives, such as addictive disorders, socioeconomic status, and socialisation, add further complexity. This book examines violence in an illegal drug market from the perspectives of those who had participated in it, that is, formerly addicted people as well as former profit-oriented drug dealers. The text is the result of the first ethnographic study of an illegal drug market in Dublin. This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars interested in the criminology and psychology of violence. More specifically, the book will be relevant to those interested in the areas of illegal drug markets, gang studies, the intersection of drugs and crime, and desistance from crime.