Out of crime and into treatment?: The criminalization of contemporary drug policy since Tackling Drugs Together

Abstract

This article examines the increasing interconnections between drugs, crime, punishment and treatment since the publication of the 1995 national drugs strategy, Tackling Drugs Together. It explores the growing merger between drug treatment and the criminal justice system and the ways in which the ‘drugs problem’ is being framed and managed as a ‘crime problem’.

• Policy
• criminal justice
• illicit drugs
• crime
• treatment