Detecting Change and the Future of Drug Law Enforcement
Detecting Change and the Future of Drug Law Enforcement
This chapter pulls together some key findings in order to consider the extent to which detective practices were affected by the formal structural context of policing and explain why some behaviours and aspects of their culture were susceptible to change whereas others proved resistant and enduring. The discussion then moves on to make some recommendations for potentially workable alternatives to traditional enforcement strategies that are designed to stimulate further research and reconfigure the evolution of the policing of drugs. By applying regulatory theory to drug detective work, it is argued that one way forward is for the police to use their powers to beneficially shape drug markets according to the standards and purposes of harm reduction.
Keywords: criminal investigation, detectives, drug law enforcement, drug policy, harm reduction, police culture, police reform, regulation, restorative justice
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