RT Article
T1 Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 64
IS 6
SP 1292
OP 1309
A1 Marshall, Hannah
A2 Bacon, Matthew
A2 Spicer, Jack
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1914459172
AB Recent shifts in UK policy have seen certain populations, who were predominantly viewed as offenders due to their involvement in drug offences, increasingly recognized as victims of exploitation. Drawing on qualitative data from three studies, this article interrogates how this trend is playing out within contemporary drugs policing, focussing on officers’ responses to people affected by: drug addiction, child criminal exploitation and ‘cuckooing’. It examines the tensions that arise as these three categories of emergent drug victims conflict with officers’ normative expectations of victimhood, perceptions of their role as police and existing operational strategies. It also reveals officers’ attempts to (re)gain ontological security by policing the boundaries of victimhood and re-focussing on new categories of offender.
K1 Victims
K1 Drugs
K1 Policing
K1 cuckooing
K1 child criminal exploitation
K1 people who use drugs
DO 10.1093/bjc/azae020