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Policing and Society
An International Journal of Research and Policy
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‘That’s their brand, their business’: how police officers are interpreting County Lines

Jack SpicerFaculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 873-886 | Received 16 Jan 2018, Accepted 22 Feb 2018, Published online: 27 Feb 2018

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Aimee Neaverson & Abbie Lake. (2023) Barriers experienced with multi-agency responses to county line gangs: a focus group study. Journal of Children's Services 18:1, pages 61-77.
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Ashley Marie Burt, Libby Payne & Daniel Robert Stubbings. (2022) Flying Under the Radar: How Susceptible Are University Students to County Lines Victimization?. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, pages 0306624X2211028.
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John Bonning & Karen Cleaver. (2020) ‘There is no “war on drugs”’: An investigation into county line drug networks from the perspective of a London borough. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles 94:4, pages 443-461.
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Jack Spicer. (2021) The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing: An ethnographic study of an amplification spiral. The British Journal of Criminology 61:5, pages 1390-1406.
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Kristen Olver & Ella Cockbain. (2021) Professionals' Views on Responding to County Lines‐Related Criminal Exploitation in the West Midlands, UK. Child Abuse Review 30:4, pages 347-362.
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Leah Rosengarten. (2021) County lines crime: what is a nurse’s role in safeguarding children?. Nursing Children and Young People 33:2, pages 9-9.
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