Criminal justice

Helpful links to information about drugs and criminality.

ACPOS, ‘Drug Strategy’

BBC, ‘The Drugs Act 2005 and presumption of intent to supply’

Home Office, ‘Drug offenders in England and Wales 2003’

National Research Council, ‘Informing America’s policy on illegal drugs: what we don’t know keeps hurting us’, chapter 5 on supply reduction policy

Drug Strategy Directorate, ‘Disrupting crack markets: a practice guide’

Home Office, ‘The effectiveness of criminal justice and treatment programmes in reducing drug-related crime: a systematic review’

The Drugs Bill 2005

Home Office, Drugs Bill: final regulatory impact assessment, 2005

Rethinking Crime and Punishment, Searching for a fix: drug misuse, crime and the criminal justice system, 2004

Turning Point, Routes into treatment: drugs and crime, 2004

Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme, Law enforcement and supply reduction, 2004

Tackling Drug Supply, briefing notes on Data Sharing

Home Office Research Study 227, Middle market drug distribution, 2001

Home Office Online Report 22/05, Literature review on upper level drug trafficking, 2005

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The policing of cannabis as a Class B drug, 2002

Drug Interventions Programmes

Drug Interventions Programme

NTA, 'Criminal justice based drug interventions: an integrated approach'

'Tough Choices' - Guidance on drug intervention programmes

Home Office, 'Key messages for the Drug Interventions Programme'

National Audit Office, The Drug Treatment and Testing Order: early lessons, 2004

House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, The Drug Treatment and Testing Order: early lessons, 2005

Home Office, 'Drug Treatment and Testing Orders: final evaluation report'

Drug testing

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Random drug testing of schoolchildren, 2005

Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Drug testing in the workplace, 2004

'Police to test drivers for drug abuse'

Drugs in prison

Government Office for London, 'London Resettlement Strategy: a commitment to action'

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