Main description:

1. This book brings the large fields of policing and drugs together; two distinct areas rarely studied together. 2. This book also has a market among public health scholars, given the overlapping areas of interest.

Contents:

Drug law enforcement, policing and harm reduction: An introduction Matthew Bacon and Jack Spicer 1.Harm reduction policing: Conceptualisation and implementation Matthew Bacon and Jack Spicer 2.More harm than good: A review of the English language literature on the policing of drug possession Charlie Lloyd 3.Drugs, race, and defunding the police: Daring to dream Benson Egwuonwu, Habib Kadiri, and Michael Shiner 4.Symbolic drugs policing: Conceptual development and harm reduction opportunities Ross Coomber, Matthew Bacon, Jack Spicer, and Leah Moyle 5.Policing cryptomarkets and the digital war on drugs James Martin, Ian Warren, and Monique Mann 6.Policing drugs in the Caribbean Matthew Louis Bishop and Dylan Kerrigan 7.Policing of drugs in Scotland: Moving beyond the stalemate to redesigning the chess board Maria Fotopoulou and Elizabeth Aston 8.Treading the paths of drug diversion Wojciech Spyt and Jason Kew 9.'Another tool in the toolbox': An investigation of a drug diversion programme in a Danish police precinct Tobias Kammersgaard, Esben Houborg, Thomas Friis Sogaard, and Sidsel Schroder 10.Beyond harm reduction policing Katherine Beckett, Monica Bell and Forrest Stuart 11.Law enforcement and public health partnerships: Opportunities and perils Evan Anderson and Ruth Shefner 12.From opponents to 'interested' partners? A case study of police and harm reduction service collaboration Esben Houborg, Tobias Kammersgaard and Thomas Friis Sogaard 13.Leading local change: Police and Crime Commissioners and drug policy Meg Jones and Ben Twomey Conclusion: From stalemate to progress Matthew Bacon and Jack Spicer