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Going solo: the social organisation of drug dealing within a London street gang

James WindleSchool of Business and Law, University of East London, University Square, Stratford, London, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Daniel BriggsCriminology, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Europea, Madrid, Spain
Pages 1170-1185 | Received 16 Dec 2013, Accepted 16 Feb 2015, Published online: 11 Mar 2015

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Jack Spicer. (2019) ‘That’s their brand, their business’: how police officers are interpreting County Lines. Policing and Society 29:8, pages 873-886.
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Jessica Pearson & John Cavener. (2024) Professionals’ understanding of the County Lines phenomenon: Insights from a study exploring the perceptions of young peoples’ supported accommodation staff. Children and Youth Services Review 156, pages 107331.
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Coral J Dando, Thomas C Ormerod & Sally Atkinson-Sheppard. (2023) Parental experiences of the impact of grooming and criminal exploitation of children for county lines drug trafficking. Journal of Public Health 45:2, pages e346-e354.
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Ben Brewster, Grace Robinson, Bernard W. Silverman & Dave Walsh. (2021) Covid-19 and child criminal exploitation in the UK: implications of the pandemic for county lines. Trends in Organized Crime 26:2, pages 156-179.
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Ebony Reid. (2023) ‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London. The British Journal of Criminology 63:1, pages 168-183.
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Simon Harding. 2023. The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Gangs in the UK. The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Gangs in the UK 57 88 .
Gregory D Breetzke, Sophie Curtis-Ham, Jarrod Gilbert & Che Tibby. (2022) The Mongrel Mob or Head Hunters? The association between neighbourhood-level factors on different types of gang membership in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Journal of Criminology 55:4, pages 433-450.
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Kevin Hosford, Nauman Aqil, James Windle, R. V. Gundur & Felia Allum. (2021) Who researches organised crime? A review of organised crime authorship trends (2004–2019). Trends in Organized Crime 25:3, pages 249-271.
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Gregory D. Breetzke, Sophie Curtis-Ham, Jarrod Gilbert & Che Tibby. (2021) Gang Membership and Gang Crime in New Zealand: A National Study Identifying Spatial Risk Factors. Criminal Justice and Behavior 49:8, pages 1154-1172.
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Graham Cambridge, Orla Lynch & James WindleGraham Cambridge, Orla Lynch & James Windle. 2022. The Desistance Journey. The Desistance Journey 135 151 .
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Thomas Wojciechowski. (2021) Feeding the Habit? Relationships Between Longitudinal Patterns of Drug Dealing and Drug use Trajectories During Adolescence Among Juvenile Offenders. The Prison Journal 101:6, pages 717-741.
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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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Bernd Werse. (2021) Marginalised identities between fatalism and desperation – experiences of low-level cannabis street dealers in Frankfurt. Drugs and Alcohol Today 21:3, pages 247-259.
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Michael Blakeburn & Richard Smith. (2020) Exploring the role of the British Transport Police in responding to ‘County Lines’ drug markets: Enforcement and safeguarding perspectives. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles 94:2, pages 239-256.
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Jack SpicerJack Spicer. 2021. Policing County Lines. Policing County Lines 19 52 .
James Windle, Leah Moyle & Ross Coomber. (2020) ‘Vulnerable’ Kids Going Country: Children and Young People’s Involvement in County Lines Drug Dealing. Youth Justice 20:1-2, pages 64-78.
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Andrew Whittaker, James Densley, Len Cheston, Tajae Tyrell, Martyn Higgins, Claire Felix-Baptiste & Tirion Havard. (2019) Reluctant Gangsters Revisited: The Evolution of Gangs from Postcodes to Profits. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 26:1, pages 1-22.
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James Windle & Andrew Silke. (2019) Is drawing from the state ‘state of the art’?: a review of organised crime research data collection and analysis, 2004–2018. Trends in Organized Crime 22:4, pages 394-413.
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Robert Francis Hesketh & Grace Robinson. (2019) Grafting: “the boyz” just doing business? Deviant entrepreneurship in street gangs. Safer Communities 18:2, pages 54-63.
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Grace Robinson, Robert McLean & James Densley. (2018) Working County Lines: Child Criminal Exploitation and Illicit Drug Dealing in Glasgow and Merseyside. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 63:5, pages 694-711.
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James Windle. (2017) The impact of the Great Recession on the Irish drug market. Criminology & Criminal Justice 18:5, pages 548-567.
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Mike Salinas. (2017) The Unusual Suspects. International Criminal Justice Review 28:3, pages 226-242.
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James Densley, Robert McLean, Ross Deuchar & Simon Harding. (2018) An altered state? Emergent changes to illicit drug markets and distribution networks in scotland. International Journal of Drug Policy 58, pages 113-120.
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Robert McLean, James A. Densley & Ross Deuchar. (2017) Situating gangs within Scotland’s illegal drugs market(s). Trends in Organized Crime 21:2, pages 147-171.
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Niamh Hourigan, John F. Morrison, James Windle & Andrew Silke. (2017) Crime in Ireland north and south: Feuding gangs and profiteering paramilitaries. Trends in Organized Crime 21:2, pages 126-146.
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Danya Fast, Jean Shoveller & Thomas Kerr. (2017) The material, moral, and affective worlds of dealing and crime among young men entrenched in an inner city drug scene. International Journal of Drug Policy 44, pages 1-11.
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Hannah Smithson & Rob Ralphs. (2016) Youth in the UK: 99 problems but the gang ain ' t one?. Safer Communities 15:1, pages 11-23.
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