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When two dark figures collide: Evidence and discourse on drug-related crime

Alex Stevens

University of Kent

This paper explores the socio-political construction of drug-related crime; a concept that has dominated recent developments in UK drug policy. It has been assumed that the perceived overlap between known offenders and drug users is also present among the much larger groups of unknown offenders and drug users. This assumption has led to inflated claims of scale, precision and causality in political discussions of the drug-crime link. The discourse coalition approach is used to analyse how such methodologically suspect knowledge has been translated into policy since 1997. It is argued that the concept of drug-related crime has been influential because it is tactically and structurally useful to powerful groups in discursive struggle.

Key Words: criminalization • policy • resistance

Critical Social Policy, Vol. 27, No. 1, 77-99 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0261018307072208
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