RT Article
T1 ‘No One Learned': Interpreting a Drugs Crackdown Operation and its Consequences Through The ‘Lens' of Social Harm
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 2
SP 382
OP 402
A1 Mason, Will
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1692882740
AB This article seeks to extend studies of social harm by detailing the ways that harm is interpreted, identified and reflected upon by social actors in a specific empirical context: a drugs crackdown operation in a northern English city. Using a longitudinal ethnographic approach, unique insights are reported both from the time that the operation took place and a point in time five years afterwards. The data offer rich accounts of the immediate, short- and longer-term impacts as interpreted by youth workers and a group of mostly Somali young people (aged 13-19). Social harm, it is argued, offers a useful ‘lens' through which to critically explore the culpability of well-meaning state interventions in the (re)production of structural inequalities.
NO Corrigendum: Vol. 60.2020, No. 2, Seite 490: This paper has been amended to correct the spelling of an author referenced. Previously the text referred to John ‘Mincie’, this should have been ‘Muncie’. Several grammatical errors have also been corrected
K1 Social harm
K1 Undercover
K1 Crackdown
K1 Policing
K1 Race
DO 10.1093/bjc/azz047