The Cost of Crackdowns: Policing Cabramatta' s Heroin Market
Lisa Maher* and David Dixon**
Current Issues in Criminal Justice 13(1):5-22.
| The authors' research suggests that police
crackdowns on street-level heroin distribution may have counterproductive
effects, including serious public health risks threats to community safety as a consequence of geographical, social, and substance displacement, and an erosion of policy efficiency cause by harm to community-policy relations. The authors call for a more rational social cost/benefit paradigm that includes more attention to the quality of life in the streets. |
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* Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Education and National Drug and Alcohol Research Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney ** Professor of Law, University of South Wales, Sydney Abstract by Gordon Nary |
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