Abstract
As outlined in the Chap. 1, County Lines have in recent years become a major social and political issue. The migration of drug dealers from major cities to other areas for the purposes of drug supply has become one of the most adaptive ways in which illicit entrepreneurs have sought to maximise profit and mitigate risk. Yet, understanding of County Lines amongst practitioners, government officials, and policy makers is emerging at best. And because County Lines are a relatively new phenomenon, little empirical research exists on them, and that which does focuses almost exclusively on London and the South East, leaving it to media reports with little comparative scope. This book adopts a wider lens.
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Football fans in Scotland often make rude references of certain practices of fans from a Northern football club.
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In the lingo being expressed here, in terms of regional context, a ‘well-known’ player would be someone who had reputable credentials as a criminal figure and who was beyond retail-level drug dealing. A ‘major player’, on the other hand, may be known amongst the public or in the higher echelons of the criminal underworld.
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McLean, R., Robinson, G., Densley, J.A. (2020). A Tale of Two Research Sites. In: County Lines. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33362-1_2
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