Bibliography: Interventions – Law Enforcement

Revolving Doors Agency works with Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) across the country to help them to develop better service responses for people in the revolving door of personal crisis and crime and to young adults in contact with the criminal justice services (Revolving Doors)

Using shop theft and a Second Chance Programme to get tough on the causes of prolific drug-addicted offending (Centre for Social Justice)

The Paper also includes a critical review of existing national and international homicide data sources (EMCDDA)

Law enforcement from 28 countries across the globe met at Europol headquarters in The Hague to share knowledge and expertise and discuss a coordinated approach to tackling crime on the dark web (Europol)

In 2017/18 there were 3,121 people arrested for drug related offences, this is 15.5% higher than 2016/17 and equates to 419 more arrests than the previous year Police Service of Northern Ireland

 

Addition of section on Fentanyl (Crown Prosecution Service)

Drug Courts in the Americas by the SSRC’s Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program reviews key findings from the United States’ experience with drug courts that may be useful to inform debates in other countries about drug courts and other alternatives to incarceration for low-level drug crimes. Although major institutional, legal, and cultural differences exist, the United States’ long experience with drug courts offers an important source of information for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that have either established, or are looking to establish, drug courts (SSRC)