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Mirroring the Market? Police Reorganisation and Effectiveness Against Drug Trafficking

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This chapter is concerned with debates about reorganisation of the police, particularly in respect of CID and criminal intelligence, and the way in which one particular understanding of’ policing of illicit drug markets fits into and advances those debates.

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Dorn, N., Murji, K., South, N. (1991). Mirroring the Market? Police Reorganisation and Effectiveness Against Drug Trafficking. In: Reiner, R., Cross, M. (eds) Beyond Law and Order. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21282-8_6

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