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London: ‘Community Damage Limitation’ through Policing?

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Open drug dealing at city or street level has been well documented in the United States and in Europe (see Zimmer, 1987, 1990; Uchida and Forst, 1994; Worden et al. 1994; Beschner and Bower, 1985). In Britain, claims such as ‘London is now the centre of a £3 billion addiction industry’1 and ‘Crack “turf wars” sweep Britaini’2 have made banner headlines in the national and local press. Drug trade in Manchester was reportedly ‘enforced by teenage hitmcn with Uzi sub-machine-guns and sawn-off shotguns’.3 Amidst the resultant public demands for safer streets, various police forces have set up ‘drug-free zones’, installing closed-circuit television cameras and mounting high-profile anti-drug operations to tackle the open, visible drug trade.

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  1. Maggy Lee
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence, London, Great Britain

    Nicholas Dorn (Director of Information Development) (Director of Information Development)

  2. Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Århus, Denmark

    Jørgen Jepsen (Associate Professor of Criminology, Director) (Associate Professor of Criminology, Director)

  3. Research Group on Transnational Crime, Trento University, Italy

    Ernesto Savona (Professor of Criminology, Director) (Professor of Criminology, Director)

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© 1996 Nicholas Dorn, Jørgen Jepsen and Ernesto Savona

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Lee, M. (1996). London: ‘Community Damage Limitation’ through Policing?. In: Dorn, N., Jepsen, J., Savona, E. (eds) European Drug Policies and Enforcement. Confederation of European Economic Associations Conference Volumes. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24619-9_3

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