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The increasing emphasis on the drug-crime link in British drug policy in recent years has had a knock-on effect on British drugs research. Research is now taking place more and more within the criminal justice system, rather than exc[...]
Auteur T. SEDDON
13 Documents disponibles écrits par cet auteur
T. SEDDON | 2014
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.25, n°5, September 2014) Article : PériodiqueThe recent emergence of vibrant markets in 'new psychoactive substances' or 'legal highs' has posed significant new challenges for drug policy. These partly concern what to do about them but the speed and complexity of change has also raised dif[...]
The association between drugs and crime is one of the central concerns of contemporary British drugs research and policy. Another major concern in recent years has been the clustering together of the most serious problems of drugs and crime in n[...]
T. SEDDON | 2011
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.22, n°6, November 2011) Article : PériodiqueThe goal of seeking to understand the development over time of drug policies is a specific version of the more general intellectual project of finding ways of explaining social change. The latter has been a preoccupation of some of the greatest [...]
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to re-appraise the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in order to develop alternative and new ideas for drug law reform. Design/methodology/approach: The approach is to analyse the Act from historical and socio-legal[...]
FRANÇAIS : Le lien entre la toxicomanie et le fait d'être sans logis est complexe, mais bien souvent le traitement de la toxicomanie ne peut être abordé avant que ne soit résolu le problème du logement. Or les toxicomanes sont le plus souvent e[...]
K. P. HAYHURST ; M. PIERCE ; M. HICKMAN ; T. SEDDON ; G. DUNN ; J. KEANE ; T. MILLAR | 2017
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.39, January 2017) Article : PériodiqueBackground: Although evidence points to a strong link between illicit drug use and crime, robust evidence for temporal order in the relationship is scant. We carried out a systematic review to assess the evidence for pathways through opiate/crac[...]
ENGLISH : Paying research subjects as an incentive to participation is a widespread practice within health and social research. Where subjects are illegal drug users, this practice is often felt to raise particular ethical issues. This paper e[...]
This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis? The global cannabis prohibition regime is fragmenting as more countries experiment with decriminalization and legalization, and t[...]
• Examines the transformation of recent drug policy, the growing emphasis on links with crime and the integration of drug treatment within the criminal justice system. • Explores how the strategic vision of the drug-crime 'problem' has shaped t[...]
FRANÇAIS : Ce papier décrit et analyse trois systèmes mis en oeuvre dans les tribunaux de police en Angleterre et aux Pays de Galles, pour offrir aux toxicomanes en attente de jugement de l'information sur les drogues et les services de prise e[...]
The term 'problem drug user' (PDU) has risen to prominence in policy and research discourse over the past 25 years or so, particularly in the UK and Europe, largely at the expense of the older 'addiction' and 'dependence' concepts. How should we[...]
