Explaining the Drug–Crime Link: Theoretical, Policy and Research Issues

By T. Seddon. Journal of Social Policy, 2000

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Outside the outsiders: Media representations of drug use (2008, background): “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…”
Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending (2017, unknown): “Seddon (2000) has argued that, while there is a strong association with drug use and acquisi-tive crime, policy makers have assumed the drugs-crime nexus to be a simple causal relationship, in a way that is not consistent with the evidence.”
What Can We Learn From The Portuguese Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs (2010, background): “…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).”