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Bibliography: Interventions – Law Enforcement


Drug Policy Reform in Latin America: Discourse and Reality

26th November 2015

This investigation seeks to give an update on the situation of people incarcerated for drug crimes and also aims to propose alternatives to incarceration (CEDD)

Categories: Bibliography, International Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: International Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Alarming number of countries flout international law by executing for drug-related crimes

12th October 2015

The death penalty continues to be used as a tool in the so-called “war on drugs”, with an alarming number of states across the globe executing people convicted on drug-related charges, in clear violation of international law (Amnesty International)

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Interventions - Law Enforcement

The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2015

9th October 2015

While the report notes that there still are a troubling number of governments with capital drug laws, in practice very few states actually execute people for drugs (Harm Reduction International)

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Harm Reduction, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Interventions - Harm Reduction, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Naloxone – what the new legislation changes mean

7th October 2015

Kate Halliday, SMMGP Programme Lead, discusses the recent legislation changes which make naloxone more readily available for those that need it (SMMGP)

Categories: Bibliography, Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Harm Reduction, Interventions - Law Enforcement, Interventions - Treatment

Categories: Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Harm Reduction, Interventions - Law Enforcement, Interventions - Treatment

Tackling the issue of New Psychoactive Substances in prisons

2nd October 2015

This series of RAPt research and policy briefings aims to synthesise over 20 years of practical experience, combined with data and analysis from our in-house research team, to improve our understanding of how to effectively tackle drug- and/or alcoholrelated crime

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Harm Reduction, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Interventions - Harm Reduction, Interventions - Law Enforcement

EMCDDA–Europol Joint Report on a new psychoactive substance: 1-phenyl-2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)-1-pentanone (α-PVP)

25th September 2015

The two organisations concluded that sufficient information had been accumulated to merit the production of a Joint Report on α-PVP as stipulated by Article 5.1 of the Council Decision

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Interventions - Law Enforcement

Penalties for drug law offences in Europe at a glance

23rd September 2015

This tool lets you examine and compare the penalties or rehabilitative responses for the core offences of drug use, possession for personal use, and supply-related offences, across countries in Europe (EMCDDA)

Categories: Bibliography, International Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: International Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Ministerial response to ACMD report on nitrous oxide misuse

18th September 2015

Letter from Jane Ellison, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, and Mike Penning, Minister of State for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims to Professor Les Iversen regarding the ACMD’s advice on nitrous oxide misuse (Home Office)

Categories: Bibliography, Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Profit from drugs inside prisons feeding crime outside, police leaders warned

17th September 2015

Police forces have been told to face up to the “fall-out” from Britain’s burgeoning prison population as the Government sets out a bold new-for-old building programme (Police Professional)

Categories: Bibliography, Economics, Interventions - Law Enforcement, Production and Supply

Categories: Economics, Interventions - Law Enforcement, Production and Supply

Helping young adult prisoners

25th August 2015

Compared with older prisoners, young adults were less likely to report needing help with a drug problem (15% compared with 33%). Young adults were less likely than older prisoners to report having used a Class A drug in the four weeks before custody (31% compared with 45%). A smaller proportion of young adults than older prisoners linked their offending behaviour with drugs (25% compared with 46%) – (Russel Webster)

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Interventions - Law Enforcement

All these experts and agencies say: Don’t treat drug users as criminals. It’s time politicians listened

18th August 2015

We should be able to argue for the decriminalisation of drugs on the basis of the evidence (which is overwhelming) that criminalisation doesn’t deter use, but does exacerbate a range of serious health and social harms (TDPF)

Categories: Bibliography, International Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: International Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Home Office drug advisers try to clear up Theresa May’s mess

18th August 2015

Psychoactive substances bill: Designed to take drug policy outside the realm of reason? (Politics.co)

Categories: Bibliography, Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Drug possession should be removed from police performance indicators

18th August 2015

In this article, Michael Shiner provides an overview of drug reform in Britain and the reclassification of cannabis (LSE)

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Interventions - Law Enforcement

Illicit Drug Use and Harms, and Related Interventions and Policy in Canada

14th August 2015

While recent federal governments introduced several law and policy measures reinforcing a repression approach to illicit drug use, lower-level jurisdictions (e.g., provincial/municipal levels) and non-governmental organizations increasingly promoted social- and health-oriented intervention frameworks and interventions, therefore creating an increasingly bifurcated–and even inherently contradictory–drug policy landscape and reality in Canada

Categories: Bibliography, Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Urban drug gangs target coastal communities

13th August 2015

The NCA’s ‘County Lines’ report shows that around half the places affected are coastal towns with high levels of unemployment, mental health issues or crime (National Crime Agency and National Police Chiefs Council)

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Interventions - Law Enforcement

Comparing models of drug decriminalisation

31st July 2015

An e-tool by IDPC

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Interventions - Law Enforcement

Report on the prevention of drug-related crime

30th July 2015

ICPC wrote a report for the Government of Canada on the prevention of drug-related crime. More precisely, the study focus on the legislative frameworks and programmes to prevent violent behavior associated with the acquisition and use of drugs International Centre for the Prevention of Crime)(

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: Interventions - Law Enforcement

Alternatives to punishment for drug-using offenders

27th July 2015

Based on the options provided by the international drug control legal framework, this paper considers the rehabilitative measures of treating, educating or reintegrating drug users as alternatives or additions to conviction or punishment that are established in the laws of many countries in Europe today (EMCDDA)

Categories: Bibliography, International Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Categories: International Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement

Drug misuse: findings from the 2014 to 2015 CSEW

24th July 2015

This release examines the extent and trends in illicit drug use among a nationally representative sample of 16 to 59 year olds resident in households in England and Wales, and is based on results from the 2014/15 Crime Survey for England and Wales (Home Office)

Categories: Bibliography, Interventions - Law Enforcement, Prevalence

Categories: Interventions - Law Enforcement, Prevalence

Public health functions to be exercised by NHS England

22nd July 2015

Public health services for people in prison or other places of detention, including those held in the Children &Young People’s Secure Estate (Public Health England)

Categories: Bibliography, Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement, Interventions - Treatment

Categories: Domestic Policy Issues, Interventions - Law Enforcement, Interventions - Treatment
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