The Changing Shape of Street-Level Heroin and Crack Supply in England: Commuting, Holidaying and Cuckooing Drug Dealers Across ‘County Lines’
- R. Coomber, L. Moyle
- Law
- 5 October 2018
Street-level drug markets have traditionally been understood as operating predominantly at a local level, and there has been an absence of contemporary research that has challenged accepted thinking…
Earning a Score: An Exploration of the Nature and Roles of Heroin and Crack Cocaine ‘User-dealers’
- L. Moyle, R. Coomber
- Sociology
- 1 May 2015
Research consistently shows a strong correlation between heroin/crack cocaine use, acquisitive crime and income generation, through activities such as sex work and theft. Less is known however about…
Beyond drug dealing: Developing and extending the concept of ‘social supply’ of illicit drugs to ‘minimally commercial supply’
- R. Coomber, L. Moyle
- Sociology, Law
- 11 March 2014
A concept of ‘social supply’ has emerged in the UK that describes drug transactions that are almost exclusively to friends and acquaintances and that are non-commercially motivated. Social suppliers…
The normalisation of drug supply: The social supply of drugs as the “other side” of the history of normalisation
- R. Coomber, L. Moyle, N. South
- Sociology
- 3 May 2016
Abstract Aims: Describes how the relative normalisation of recreational drug use in the UK has been productive of, and fused with, the relatively normalised and non-commercial social supply of…
#Drugsforsale: An exploration of the use of social media and encrypted messaging apps to supply and access drugs.
- L. Moyle, Andrew Childs, R. Coomber, M. Barratt
- MedicineThe International journal on drug policy
- 1 January 2019
Bourdieu on supply: Utilizing the ‘theory of practice’ to understand complexity and culpability in heroin and crack cocaine user-dealing
- L. Moyle, R. Coomber
- Law
- 1 May 2017
The act of user-dealing has largely been explored within criminology in conjunction with the ‘drug–crime’ link or with a focus on ethnography and subculture. Whereas it is known that many users of…
Reflections on three decades of research on ‘social supply’ in the UK
- R. Coomber, L. Moyle, N. South
- Law
- 16 June 2016
This chapter reviews how forms of friend and acquaintance supply that might be considered less than ‘drug dealing proper’ are not new and have existed over many years. It reflects on how, over time,…
Crushing a Walnut With a Sledge Hammer? Analysing the Penal Response to the Social Supply of Illicit Drugs
- L. Moyle, R. Coomber, J. Lowther
- Law
- 18 June 2013
The evidence base relating to illicit drug markets, drug supply activities and drug seller characteristics increasingly presents a picture of diversity, whereby differing motivations for supplying…
‘Vulnerable’ Kids Going Country: Children and Young People’s Involvement in County Lines Drug Dealing
- J. Windle, L. Moyle, R. Coomber
- Business
- 6 February 2020
The article concludes by discussing the challenges of safeguarding young people, particularly that over-worked and under-resourced frontline practitioners can experience difficulties identifying the vulnerability of young people caught up in county lines, particularly beneath their tough exteriors.
Situating Vulnerability and Exploitation in Street-Level Drug Markets: Cuckooing, Commuting, and the “County Lines” Drug Supply Model
- L. Moyle
- Political ScienceJournal of Drug Issues
- 2 August 2019
The emergence of “county lines” drug dealing, a supply model which sees drug dealers travel from urban hubs to provincial locations to retail heroin and crack cocaine, is now established in the…
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