‘Drug dogs unleashed’: an historical and political account of drug detection dogs for street-level policing of illicit drugs in New South Wales, Australia

This article provides an historical and descriptive account of the introduction and development of the use of drug detection dogs as a tool for street-level illicit drugs policing in one Australian jurisdiction, NSW. Within this account, the legal and political context in which drug detection dogs e...

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Main Author: Lancaster, Kari (Author)
Contributors: Ritter, Alison ; Hughes, Caitlin
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 360-378
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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