Carlgit reply: For this task, you need to choose an essay question from the list provided below and
complete a 1,500-word essay that puts forward an original argument around, and substantial
analysis of, the selected topic.(Do not go over the 1800 words) this doesn’t include the bibliography. 20 References minimum required
READING LIST: (MUST INCLUDE IN THE ESSAY)
Drugs, Crime and Social Exclusion in The British Journal of Criminology
Article by Toby Seddon 2006 Essential
Drugs and crime
Book by Philip Bean 2014 Recommended
Assessing the impact of a high-intensity partnership between the police and drug treatment service in addressing the offending of problematic drug users in Policing and Society
Article by David Best; Deborah Walker; Elizabeth Aston; Charlotte Pegram; Geraldine O’Donnell 2010 Recommended
In search of respect: selling crack in El Barrio
Book by Philippe I. Bourgois 2003 Recommended
The Changing Shape of Street-Level Heroin and Crack Supply in England: Commuting, Holidaying and Cuckooing Drug Dealers Across County Lines in The British Journal of Criminology
Article by Ross Coomber; Leah Moyle 2018 Recommended
The normalisation of drug supply: The social supply of drugs as the other side of the history of normalisation in Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy
Article by Ross Coomber; Leah Moyle; Nigel South 2016 Recommended
Key concepts in drugs and society
Book by Ross Coomber; Karen McElrath; Fiona Measham; Karenza Moore 2013 Recommended
See chapter 20 (Drug related violence), chapter 21 (drugs and crime), chapter 33 (drug dealers), chapter 24 (drug markets: difference and diversity) and chapter 35 (drug trafficking)
Chasing the scream: the search for the truth about addiction
Book by Johann Hari 2019 Recommended
See part 3 ‘Angels’
Drugs crime and criminal justice in Drugs: policy and politics
Chapter by Rhidian Hughes; Nerys Anthony Recommended
County lines violence, exploitation & drug supply 2017 – national briefing report
Document by National Crime Agency 2017 Recommended
Assessing UK drug policy from a crime control perspective in Criminology & Criminal Justice
Article by Peter Reuter; Alex Stevens 2008 Recommended
Drugs, alcohol, and crime in The Oxford handbook of criminology
Chapter by Nigel South; Fiona Measham RecommendedThats their brand, their business: how police officers are interpreting County Lines in Policing and Society
Article by Jack Spicer 2019 Recommended
When two dark figures collide: Evidence and discourse on drug-related crime in Critical Social Policy
Article by Alex Stevens 2007 Recommended
Drugs, crime and public health: the political economy of drug policy
Book by Alex Stevens 2011 Recommended
See chapter 3 (Beyond the tripartite framework: the subterranean structuration of the drug-crime link) and chapter 4 (Telling policy stories: governmental use of evidence and policy on drugs and crime)
The Victimization of Dependent Drug Users in European Journal of Criminology
Article by Alex Stevens; Daniele Berto; Ulrich Frick; Viktoria Kerschl; Tim McSweeney; Susanne Schaaf; Morena Tartari; Paul Turnbull; Barbara Trinkl; Ambros Uchtenhagen; Gabriele Waidner; Wolfgang Werdenich 2007 Recommended
From Social Supply to Real Dealing in Journal of Drug Issues
Article by Matthew Taylor; Gary R. Potter 2013 Recommended
Narconomics: how to run a drug cartel
Book by Tom Wainwright 2017 Recommended
