Explaining the Drug–Crime Link: Theoretical, Policy and Research Issues
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...…that police officers spent the time they saved (from not arresting drug users) on boosting reporting and recording other low-level crimes (for an overview of the difficulties in assessing the cause and effects of changes in drug-related crime, see Seddon 2000; da Agra 2002; Stevens 2007)....
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...The relationship between illegal drug use and offence commitment, although it is not direct and simple, is unquestionable, and it has been well documented so far (Casavant and Collin, 2001; Chalub and De Borba Telles, 2006; EMCDDA, 2007; McBride, 1993; Seddon, 2000; Trace, 1998)....
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...This link has been questioned in earnest by other writers (see Buchanan, 2004; Manzoni et al., 2006; Seddon, 2000; Simpson, 2003; Stevens, 2007) and in particular Malloch (2007) has alluded to the fact that this link is far from clear cut, and that policy is based around stereotypes of specific…...
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...This link has been questioned in earnest by other writers (see Buchanan, 2004; Manzoni et al., 2006; Seddon, 2000; Simpson, 2003; Stevens, 2007) and in particular Malloch (2007) has alluded to the fact that this link is far from clear cut, and that policy is based around stereotypes of specific marginalized groups that represent the dangerous classes and who are in need of control – not on the employed and educated middle-class drug users who seemingly form a core element of the drug-using population....
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...The pioneering work of Preble and Casey (1969) showed that the lifestyle of the New York street addict, far from being passive and retreatist, was in fact better described as active and resourceful....
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...The work of Hammersley and colleagues in Glasgow (Hammersley and Morrison, 1987; Hammersley et al., 1989, 1990) is perhaps the most sophisticated version of this third model....
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...…use (Parker and Newcombe, 1987; Bean and Wilkinson, 1988) which is not accounted for by their arguments, although since most studies rely on conviction records which only pick up a fraction of actual offences it is difficult to assess the size of this group (see Hammersley et al., 1989, p. 1032)....
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...…sources for heroin users shows that they rely on a number of ways of raising money (e.g. wages, benefits, drug dealing, sex work, partners’ income, gifts from family/friends) of which property crime is just one (Hammersley et al., 1989; Parker and Bottomley, 1996; Bennett, 1998; Dorn et al., 1994)....
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