A Land Fit for Heroin: Drug Policies, Prevention , and Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Dorn, Nicholas

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Bringing together a range of important new research findings, this book provides a clear account of the effects and incidence of heroin use in Britain, the policies presently deployed to combat it, and the broader patterns of production and distribution of the drug. The authors relate heroin use to other drug abuse and show many of the assumptions that underlie current policy to be erroneous proposing the elements of an alternative policy agenda. Essential reading for all concerned with the drug problem. ...I would enthusiastically commend the book to anyone with a basic working knowledge of the drug field who needed stimulation for a thought provoking weekend.' British Journal of Addiction

A Land Fit for Heroin? Drug Policies, Prevention and Practice

Health, Fitness & Dieting

South, Nigel

Addiction & Recovery

Palgrave HE UK

The authors of "Traffickers" reject the conventional idea that drug trafficking is dominated by large criminal organisations. Big traffickers, the mafia, cartels - these are myths, nourishing the popular imagination and stimulating advances in law enforcement. "Traffickers" exposes the diversity of drug trafficking today, and provides an account of how police operations work. It includes: accounts of the development of drug markets from the 1960s to the 1990s, a discussion of the evolution of new policing methods, including secret intelligence development operations, insider views on the development of a national detective agency for Britain and extended extracts from a hitherto unpublished and confidential report from the Association of Chief Police Officers. This book should be of interest to students of criminology, addiction, social policy, politics and law.

Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement

Murji, Karim

Routledge

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.

Democracy and Diversity in Financial Market Regulation

Financial markets have become acknowledged as a source of crisis, and discussion of them has shifted from economics, through legal and regulatory studies, to politics. Events from 2008 onwards raise important, cross-disciplinary questions: must financial markets drive states into political and existential crisis, must public finances take over private losses, must citizens endure austerity? This book argues that there is an alternative. If the financial system were less 'connected', contagion within the market would be reduced and crises would become more localised and intermittent, less global and pervasive. The question then becomes how to reduce connectedness within financial markets. This book argues that the democratic direction of financial market policies can deliver this. Politicising financial market policies – taking discussion of these issues out of the sphere of the 'technical' and putting it into the same democratically contested space as, for example, health and welfare policies – would encourage differing policies to emerge in different countries. Diversity of regulatory regimes would result in some business models being attracted to some jurisdictions, others to others. The resulting heterogeneity, when viewed from a global perspective, would be a reversal of recent and current tendencies towards one single/global 'level playing field', within which all financial firms and sectors have become closely connected and across which contagion inevitably reigns. No doubt the democratisation of financial market policy would be opposed by big firms – their interests being served by regulatory convergence – and considered macabre by some financial regulators and central bankers, who are coalescing into an elite community. However, everyone else, Nicholas Dorn argues here, would be better off in a financial world characterised by greater diversity.

Business & Money

Finance

Drug-related social work in street agencies: A study by the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (Social work monographs)

Social Work Today

Drug prevention: A review of the English language literature (ISDD research monograph)

Politics & Government

Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence

Alcohol, Youth and the State (Routledge Library Editions: Alcohol and Alcoholism)

Computers & Technology

Programming Languages

Financial markets have become acknowledged as a source of crisis, and discussion of them has shifted from economics, through legal and regulatory studies, to politics. Events from 2008 onwards raise important, cross-disciplinary questions: must financial markets drive states into political and existential crisis, must public finances take over private losses, must citizens endure austerity? This book argues that there is an alternative. If the financial system were less 'connected', contagion within the market would be reduced and crises would become more localised and intermittent, less global and pervasive. The question then becomes how to reduce connectedness within financial markets.   This book argues that the democratic direction of financial market policies can deliver this. Politicising financial market policies – taking discussion of these issues out of the sphere of the 'technical' and putting it into the same democratically contested space as, for example, health and welfare policies – would encourage differing policies to emerge in different countries. Diversity of regulatory regimes would result in some business models being attracted to some jurisdictions, others to others. The resulting heterogeneity, when viewed from a global perspective, would be a reversal of recent and current tendencies towards one single/global 'level playing field', within which all financial firms and sectors have become closely connected and across which contagion inevitably reigns.   No doubt the democratisation of financial market policy would be opposed by big firms – their interests being served by regulatory convergence – and considered macabre by some financial regulators and central bankers, who are coalescing into an elite community. However, everyone else, Nicholas Dorn argues here, would be better off in a financial world characterised by greater diversity.

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