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- Provides the unique perspective of suppliers involved in the county lines drug supply phenomenon
- Uses two in-depth case studies from Britain to discuss the overlap between drug-related crime and other forms of organized crime
- Recommends more effective strategies for proactive policing against the evolving drug supply models
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Walking the Lines
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Front Matter
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Between the Lines
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Front Matter
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Draw the Line
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Back Matter
About this book
The authors conducted interviews with practitioners, offenders, ex-offenders and those members of the general public most effected by organised crime. The research explores how drug markets have continued to evolve, accumulating in the phenomenon that is county lines. It explores how such behavior has gradually become ever more intertwined with other forms of organised criminal activity.
Useful for researchers, policy makers, and law enforcement officials, this brief recommends a rethinking of current reactive policing strategies.
Authors and Affiliations
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Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Robert McLean
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Criminology, Blackpool and the Fylde College, Lancashire, UK
Grace Robinson
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Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Education Center, Metropolitan State University, Brooklyn Park, USA
James A. Densley
About the authors
Robert McLean is a criminal justice lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland. As well as making a number of media appearances, McLean has also published widely on the topics of gang/group offending, (dis)organised crime, drug harms, and criminal desistance.
Grace Robinson is Programme Leader of Criminology at Blackpool and the Fylde College. Grace has recently completed a PhD researching gangs, Child Criminal Exploitation and County Lines, at Edge Hill University.
James Densley is Professor of Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University and co-founder of The Violence Project. He has received global media attention for his work on street gangs, criminal networks, violence, and policing. Densley is the author of two prior books, including How Gangs Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 40 refereed articles in leading social science journals, and over 50 book chapters, essays, and other non-refereed works. He earned his DPhil in sociology from the University of Oxford.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: County Lines
Book Subtitle: Criminal Networks and Evolving Drug Markets in Britain
Authors: Robert McLean, Grace Robinson, James A. Densley
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33362-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33361-4Published: 20 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33362-1Published: 15 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2192-8533
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8541
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 93
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organized Crime, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice