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Drug-Crime Connections

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Authors:
Trevor Bennett, University of Glamorgan
Katy Holloway, University of Glamorgan

Date Published: September 2007
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521687140

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Drug-Crime Connections challenges the assumption that there is a widespread association between drug use and crime. Instead, it argues that there are many highly specific connections. Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway draw together in a single volume a wide range of findings from a study of nearly 5,000 arrestees interviewed as part of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) program. They investigate specific drug-crime connections and other topics, such as gender and drugs, ethnicity and drugs, gangs, guns, drug markets, and treatment needs.
- Brings together in one volume the results of a national survey of a large sample of arrestees in the UK exploring drug use and crime
- Investigates less-common themes in drug-crime connections, such as multiple drug use, gender, ethnicity, and gun possession
- Each chapter begins with an up-to-date review of the topic's literature, followed by a summary of results
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“Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway have made a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relationship between drugs and crime—one of the most important and perplexing issues to confront criminology in recent decades. Drug-Crime Connections is more than a ‘must read’; it belongs on the book shelves of drugs researchers and policymakers worldwide who will consult it frequently for its balanced and measured assessment of the evidence.” -Richard Wright, Curators’ Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Product details
- Date Published: September 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521687140
- length: 374 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- contains: 84 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. Background
2. Research methods
Part II. Drug Misuse among Criminals:
3. Drug misuse among arrestees
4. Drugs and health
Part III. Drug-Crime Affinities:
5. Drugs and crime
6. Disaggregating the drugs-crime relationship
7. Multiple drug use and crime
8. Users' perceptions of the drugs-crime link
Part IV. Special Topics:
9. Gender, drugs, and crime
10. Ethnicity, drugs, and crime
11. Gangs and gang members
12. Gun possession and use
13. Drug markets
14. Assisted desistance and treatment needs
15. International comparisons
Part V. Conclusions:
16. Conclusions.
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Authors
Trevor Bennett, University of Glamorgan
Dr. Trevor Bennett is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Glamorgan. He has published widely in the area of drug use and crime, most recently as co-author of Understanding Drugs, Alcohol and Crime (2005) with Katy Holloway and as a contributor to Substance Use and Misuse, the British Journal of Criminology and the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.
Katy Holloway, University of Glamorgan
Dr. Katy Holloway is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Glamorgan. She is also a Lecturer on the M.Sc. in Criminology and Criminal Justice program. She has published widely in the area of drug use and crime, most recently as co-author of Understanding Drugs, Alcohol and Crime (2005) with Trevor Bennett and as a contributor to Substance Use and Misuse, the British Journal of Criminology and the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.