Publication

cjm 84: Drugs

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

David Nutt and Sophie Macken are the guest editors with experts contributing a series of articles that critically assess and challenge the coalition's drug strategy.

Eric Carlin argues that ultimately the strategy will disappoint and Neil McKeganey considers the rationale behind it.

The topical and comment sections cover a range of contemporary issues including the usefulness of criminal profiling, the exercise of power and authority in prison, and debating the use of victim personal statements in court.

In this edition

An ‘historic’ year: but who will be penalised?

Tammy McGloughlin and Will McMahon introduce this issue of cjm

By Tammy McGloughlin and Will McMahon

Annual Event: Utopia or Dystopia? Living in hope not fear

On 20 January this year, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies held its Annual Event

By Vincenzo Ruggiero, Vivien Stern, Rod Morgan and David Nutt

The usefulness of criminal profiling

Craig Jackson, David Wilson and Baljit Kaur Rana review some of the evidence on the profiling process

By Craig Jackson, David Wilson and Baljit Kaur Rana

‘That’s not my name’: prisoner deference and disciplinarian prison officers

David Scott highlights the exercise of power and authority in prison

By David Scott

Summary trial – too summary?

Peter Hungerford-Welch argues that speed must not be achieved at the expense of the right of the accused to a fair trial

By Peter Hungerford-Welch

Same difference? Evidence versus ‘common sense’ in the Coalition Drug Strategy

David Nutt and Sophie Macken introduce the themed section of cjm

By David Nutt and Sophie Macken

UK drugs strategy: off-balance as before?

Eric Carlin argues that the failure to refocus from criminal justice to public health means the Strategy will ultimately disappoint

By Eric Carlin

Making the case for drug education

Patrick Hargreaves considers different approaches for getting effective messages across to young people

By Patrick Hargreaves

Recovery through contradiction?

Alex Stevens examines the tensions between rhetoric and action in the government’s new approach to drug treatment

By Alex Stevens

Carrots and sticks: problem drug users and welfare reform

Emma Wincup explores both the New Labour government’s and the Coalition’s proposals to tackle problem drug users through welfare reform

By Emma Wincup

‘New’ Strategy, usual suspects: a critique of reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery

Stuart Taylor argues that the focus on the ‘usual suspects’ will not do

By Stuart Taylor

Legal highs: the challenge for government

Fiona Measham considers the policy challenges for regulating ‘novel’ drugs

By Fiona Measham

Forty years on: time for a new approach to drug control?

Jonathan Birdwell and Nicola Singleton argue that it is time for a fundamental review of the current system of drug control

By Jonathan Birdwell and Nicola Singleton

Where is the morality in UK drug policy?

Neil McKeganey considers the rationale behind the strategy

By Neil McKeganey

Is penal reform working? Community sentences and reform sector strategies

Helen Mills and Rebecca Roberts consider the opportunities and challenges for progressive penal reform followed by responses from George Mair, Jamie Bennett and Mick Ryan

By Helen Mills, Rebecca Roberts, George Mair, Jamie Bennett and Mick Ryan

Building an international movement to abolish the prison industrial complex

Rachel Herzing and Isaac Ontiveros describe the aims prompting an abolitionist framework

By Rachel Herzing and Isaac Ontiveros