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STUDY 2001 PDF file 100Kb
Persistent and credible enforcement needed to prevent widespread alcohol sales to under-18s

The first scientific study in Britain of test purchases of alcohol by underage children implies that persistent, credible and well publicised enforcement will be needed; short-term 'crackdowns' risk being followed by an upsurge in illegal sales.

STUDY 2001 PDF file 199Kb
What effect do police crackdowns have on the demand for treatment?

Indicating that enforcement can foster treatment entry, in Switzerland and Australia police disruption of familiar and accessible heroin markets or the cumulation of enforcement pressure persuaded some users to enter methadone maintenance.

STUDY 2002 PDF file 240Kb
Police crackdowns: environmental and community changes sustain impact

The largest ever police offensive against drug dealers in London did not reduce street crime or availability of crack – its prime target. Extended text reviews studies showing crackdowns need to be embedded in environmental and community initiatives.

STUDY 2003 PDF file 130Kb
What happens when heroin supplies dry up?

The 2001 'heroin drought' in Australia can be seen as a test of what might happen if enforcement authorities dramatically reduced heroin supplies in a country with a thriving heroin market patronised by an established population of heroin addicts.

REVIEW 2007 HTM file
Drug law enforcement: a review of the evaluation literature

Rare review of enforcement tactics concludes that proactive interventions involving partnerships between the police and third parties and/or community entities have the greatest research backing, but also that the evidence base is poor and sparse.

STUDY 2005 PDF file 108Kb
Feedback to police and licensees helps cut alcohol-related violence and crime

Asking alcohol-related offenders where they last drank enabled police to target licensed premises associated with alcohol-related crime. After a trial showed it was feasible and reduced alcohol-related incidents, the system was implemented across New South Wales.

REVIEW 2009 HTM file
Refocusing drug-related law enforcement to address harms

'Target enforcement to reduce individual and community harm' is the premise of this report from a UK drug policy think tank, one which seems widely understood, though in some quarters, deeply contested.

REVIEW 2010 HTM file
Effect of drug law enforcement on drug-related violence: evidence from a scientific review

The first systematic review of this issue cautions that heightened drug enforcement which fails to curtail the illicit market in drugs can generate drug-related violence, raising the overall level of violence in societies where such markets are widespread and endemic.

REVIEW 2011 HTM file
Effect of drug law enforcement on drug-related violence: a systematic review

The update of the first systematic review of the impact of enforcement on violence cautions that heightened drug enforcement which fails to curtail the illicit market can generate drug-related violence, raising the overall level of violence in societies where markets are widespread and endemic.

STUDY 2010 HTM file
Cracking down on youth tobacco may influence drug use

In Illinois in the USA, randomly allocating towns to enforce laws against youth smoking in public led not just to fewer youth smoking but also fewer drinking or using and being offered illegal drugs - did anti-tobacco policing spill-over to create an environment unfriendly to drinking and illegal drug use?


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