Safer Communities: Volume 8 Issue 1

Editorial

Ben Lynam

Safer Society

Towards a harm‐reduction approach to enforcement

Jonathan Caulkins, Peter Reuter

This article provides an overview of the opportunities enforcement has to undertake activities to reduce harms caused by drug markets. Four pathways are open to the police in…

Tackling serious organised crime drug harms

David Bolt

In a response to Caulkins' and Reuter's paper in this edition, David Bolt accepts that arresting and imprisoning criminals is ‘no longer seen as the end‐game’. He is supportive of…

A local authority perspective

Leo Boland, Steve Kavanagh

This article considers how recommendations from the Caulkins and Reuter paper in this edition could be implemented at a neighbourhood level. The authors, the Chief Executive and…

What do law enforcement strategies contribute to UK drug harm‐reduction?

John Grieve

Drawing on his personal experience as a police officer and a range of literature, the author applies Caulkins' and Reuter's paper in this edition to the UK experience. In…

Asset recovery to reduce drug market harms

Tristram Hicks

This article, written by a Detective Chief Inspector with extensive experience of asset recovery, discusses how asset recovery legislation can contribute to a harm‐reduction‐led…