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Auteur C. E. HUGHES
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M. SHANAHAN ; C. E. HUGHES ; T. McSWEENEY ; B. A. GRIFFIN | 2017
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.41, March 2017) Article : PériodiqueBackground: There is increasing international interest in alternatives to the use of arrest for minor drug offences. While Australia has been at the forefront in the provision of diversionary programs for minor drug offences there remain key gap[...]Nouveauté
V. BELACKOVA ; A. RITTER ; M. SHANAHAN ; C. E. HUGHES | 2017
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.41, March 2017) Article : PériodiqueBackground: Variations in drug laws, as well as variations in enforcement practice, exist across jurisdictions. This study explored the feasibility of categorising drug laws "on the books" in terms of their punitiveness, and the extent of their [...]
C. E. HUGHES ; A. RITTER ; N. MABBITT | 2013
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.24, n°3, May 2013) Article : PériodiqueBackground: Coordination has been recognised as a critical ingredient for successful drug policy governance. Yet what coordination means and how we assess the processes, outputs and outcomes of drug policy coordination is seldom defined. In this[...]
ENGLISH : ISSUES: Evidence-based policy is promoted as the ideal in drug policy, yet public policy theorists suggest that policy-based evidence may be a more fitting analogy, where evidence is used selectively to support a predetermined policy[...]
C. E. HUGHES ; J. CHALMERS ; D. A. BRIGHT ; F. MATTHEW-SIMMONS ; N. SINDICICH | 2012
Dans Drug and Alcohol Review (Vol.31, n°3, May 2012) Article : PériodiqueIntroduction and Aims. Media attention to cocaine use and supply has increased following some of the largest cocaine seizures in Australia's history. Whether there has been an expansion in supply remains unclear. This paper examines the evidence[...]
C. E. HUGHES ; K. LANCASTER ; B. SPICER | 2011
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.22, n°4, July 2011) Article : PériodiqueBACKGROUND Media reporting on illicit issues has been frequently criticised for being sensationalised, biased and narrow. Yet, there have been few broad and systematic analyses of the nature of reporting. Using a large sample and methods commonl[...]
K. LANCASTER ; C. E. HUGHES ; B. SPICER ; F. MATTHEW-SIMMONS ; P. DILLON | 2011
Dans Drug and Alcohol Review (Vol.30, n°4, July 2011) Article : PériodiqueISSUES: Illicit drugs are never far from the media gaze and although identified almost a decade ago as 'a new battleground' for the alcohol and other drug (AOD) field there has been limited research examining the role of the news media and its e[...]
C. E. HUGHES ; A. STEVENS | 2012
Dans Drug and Alcohol Review (Vol.31, n°1, January 2012) Article : PériodiqueIn this Harm Reduction Digest two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a 'resounding success' or a 'disastrous failure'. Acknowledging from their own experi[...]Nouveauté
C. E. HUGHES ; V. MOXHAM-HALL ; A. RITTER ; D. WEATHERBURN ; R. MACCOUN | 2017
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.41, March 2017) Article : PériodiqueBackground: Australian and international street-level drug law enforcement deploy many strategies in efforts to prevent or deter illicit drug offending. Limited evidence of deterrence exists. This study assessed the likely impacts of four Austra[...]
C. E. HUGHES ; A. RITTER ; N. COWDERY ; N. SINDICICH | 2014
Dans Drug and Alcohol Review (Vol.33, n°6, November 2014) Article : PériodiqueIntroduction and Aims. Legal thresholds for drug trafficking, over which possession of an illicit drug is deemed 'trafficking' as opposed to 'personal use', are employed in all Australian states and territories excepting Queensland. In this pape[...]
C. E. HUGHES ; A. STEVENS | 2010
Dans British Journal of Criminology (Vol.50, n°6, November 2010) Article : PériodiqueThe issue of decriminalizing illicit drugs is hotly debated, but is rarely subject to evidence-based analysis. This paper examines the case of Portugal, a nation that decriminalized the use and possession of all illicit drugs on 1 July 2001. Dra[...]
