Traffickers : drug markets and law enforcement / / Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, and Nigel South

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455291503321
• Autore: Dorn Nicholas.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
• ISBN: 1-134-96051-4; 1-280-32661-1; 9786610326617; 0-203-19324-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MurjiKarim <1960->; SouthNigel
• Disciplina: 363.4/5/0941; 363.450941
• Soggetti: Drug control; Drug traffic; Drug traffic - Great Britain; Drug traffic--Great Britain; Drugs of abuse; Drugs of abuse--Law and legislation--Great Britain--Criminal provisions; Narcotic laws; Narcotics, Control of--Great Britain; Drug traffic - Law and legislation - Criminal provisions - Great Britain; Drug control - Great Britain; Drugs of abuse - Great Britain; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-242) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The good old days: reciprocity and public service; Going for cover: trafficking as a sideline; Things get nasty: enter the criminal diversifier; Contested streets: retailing into the 1990's; Policing from the top down: from US theory to UK practice; City drug squads: surveillance and buy ; operations; Policing localities: street operations; Informants and stings: tradition and innovation in plainclothes work; Intelligence rules: the centralisation of policing in Britain; The punishment illusion: your money and your life?; Conclusion: a little knowledge . . .Appendix: Extracts from ACPO's 'Broome Report'; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement. The chameleon reality of the world of drug trafficking is described in the words of traffickers and detectives. Drug enforcement combines the banal and spectacular in surveillance, covert operations and criminal intelligence. The war on drugs is a harbinger of wider changes in the organisation of policing and international cooperation. Traffickers explores the struggle that transforms policing and punishment as it stimulates the imagination.