For decades, cocaine trafficking has been a key factor in accelerating the social and
ecological transformation of rural landscapes across Latin America. In this review article, we …

Around the world, police officers are travelling abroad to work. This might be a plane, train or
automobile journey to collect evidence on an unsolved murder. It might be a year's …

Background In recent years, marketplaces in the darknet emerged where vendors and
customers can exchange illicit drugs and other goods on digital platforms by using hidden …

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent
policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach-centred on the UK, but with insights …

Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread
unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and …

This policy brief examines the expansion of drug markets on the Dark Net or 'hidden
web'and the challenges they pose for both law enforcement agencies and the international …

The police are the initial faces of law enforcement and commence the criminal justice
process and thus hold significant responsibility for functioning law and order. As key …

This paper considers the public health impacts of the income-generating activities of
organised crime. These range from the traditional vice activities of running prostitution and …

Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as 'dangerous drugs', to be controlled by
the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others–from alcohol and tobacco …

Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how
the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The …