11 Documents disponibles écrits par cet auteur
How do young people obtain cannabis? A snapshot view from a large city and rural villages. The supply of drugs to young people is an emotive subject with discussion rarely referring to actual evidence (which is itself scarce). What evidence exis[...]
FRANÇAIS : Cet article présente les résultats d'une étude sur six mois des activités de réduction de la demande dans le système de justice criminelle des pays membres de l'Union Européenne. L'ampleur de ces activités au stade de l'arrestation v[...]
This study follows up earlier research on occasional and controlled patterns of heroin use in order to examine how - if at all - this groups use of the drug changed over an extended period of time. The previous study (Occasional and controlled h[...]
This report examines the domestic cultivation of cannabis in England and Wales. Traditionally cannabis has been imported into the country by drug traffickers, but rapid changes are occurring. The extent of home cultivation has grown rapidly over[...]
FRANÇAIS : Au Royaume-Uni, environ 1/4 à 1/3 des usagers de drogues intraveineux (UDIs) qui vont en prison continuent de s'injecter, et parmi eux, environ les 3/4 partagent les aiguilles et les seringues. Dans cette étude, 44 UDIs récemment lib[...]
An exploration of heroin use among non-dependent and controlled dependent heroin users who saw their use as relatively problem-free. Little is currently known about groups of occasional and controlled heroin users. This study aims to improve our[...]
J. PARSONS ; M. HICKMAN ; P. J. TURNBULL ; T. McSWEENEY ; G. V. STIMSON ; A. JUDD ; K. ROBERTS | 2002
PériodiqueFRANÇAIS : Le nombre de seringues distribuées en avril 1997 est estimé à 1 707 000 et celui de l'année à 27 millions, à partir de 2000 lieux d'échange dans le Royaume-Uni. Le nombre de seringues distribuées en Ecosse est 3 à 4 fois plus bas que[...]
L. BARHAM ; E. BRAMLEY-HARKER ; M. HICKMAN ; M. HOUGH ; P. J. TURNBULL | 2003
Dans Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (The) (Vol.42, n°4, September 2003) Article : PériodiqueThis article discusses approaches to assessing the size of the illicit market for powder cocaine, and the inherent difficulties of this issue. It describes recent attempts to investigate more accurate measures of the prevalence and extent of use[...]
Summary of report findings: Latest figures (for 2003/04) estimate the size of the UK illicit drug market to be £5.3 billion and is considered to pose the single greatest organised crime threat to the UK. About one-quarter of the total cost of de[...]
This summary presents the main, essentially qualitative, findings from this exploratory study of drug supply and demand in six local prisons (five male and one female) in England. As with any small-scale qualitative research, findings should be [...]
This report describes the findings of a study designed to provide a snapshot of the policing of cannabis in England and Wales. It focuses on the offence of possession. It examines the relationship between policy and practice, how offences of pos[...]
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