RT Article
T1 Distinctly divergent or hanging onto English coat-tails? Drug policy in post-devolution Wales
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 19
IS 3
SP 364
OP 381
A1 Brewster, David
A2 Jones, Robert
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174167882X
AB The process of Welsh devolution has marshalled major political, social and institutional change. While scholars within various disciplines have attempted to make sense of these changes, the discipline of criminology remains something of an exception. This article offers an examination of the unique Welsh criminal justice policy space that has been opened up by devolution in Wales. The article provides a long overdue assessment of how drug policy in Wales, while continuing to straddle the UK Government’s criminal justice responsibilities, is configured and shaped within post-devolution Wales. The empirical findings presented here reveal the existence of a distinct Welsh drug policy as well as discovering clear limitations to Welsh policy divergence. The article outlines the need for criminologists to take Wales - and the Welsh policy space - more seriously, while highlighting the need for criminologists to become more attuned to the considerable effects being made by constitutional change.
K1 Devolution
K1 Divergence
K1 Drug policy
K1 Substance misuse
K1 Wales
DO 10.1177/1748895818757834