How did people who used drugs in the first year of a decriminalization pilot project see their interactions with police?

As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

Apr 09, 2025

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Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy
Journal: Criminology & Public Policy
Keywords: drug use, harm reduction, possession, drug, police, policing, law enforcement, policy, law, public policy
First author: Cayley Russell (Institute for Mental Health Policy Research Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Toronto Ontario Canada) [+6 other authors]

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Research by type of crime

Violence

Development and Validation of the Psychological Abuse in Relationships Scale

Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Keywords: violence, intimate partner violence, intimate partner, victim, victimization
First author: Elizabeth Veronica-Mary McLindon (The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia) [+4 other authors]

Young People and Violent Extremism

Journal: Youth Justice
Keywords: violent
First author: Ursula Kilkelly

Supporting Sexual Violence Prevention and Response for Student-Athletes: Exploring Successes and Challenges Within Division I Athletic Programs

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence, sexual violence
First author: Alice M. Ellyson (Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) [+6 other authors]

The global political economy of private sector intelligence and the African challenge

Journal: Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
Keywords: terrorism, policing
First author: Ngboawaji Daniel Nte (Novena University)

Property

None found today.

Drugs

Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy

Journal: Criminology & Public Policy
Keywords: drug use, harm reduction, possession, drug, police, policing, law enforcement, policy, law, public policy
First author: Cayley Russell (Institute for Mental Health Policy Research Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Toronto Ontario Canada) [+6 other authors]

A two-track system: Police officer discretion in enforcement of personal use and possession of drugs in Sweden's zero-tolerance setting

Journal: European Journal of Criminology
Keywords: harm reduction, possession, drug, offender, police, police officer, law enforcement, judgment, penal, policy, legislation, law
First author: Torkel Richert (Malmö University, Sweden) [+1 other author]

White Collar

None found today.

Organized

From Control to Complicity: Judicial Constraints, Control Balance Theory, and Internet Services’ Role in Online Child Sexual Exploitation

Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: exploitation, judicial
First author: Claire Nolasco Braaten (Texas A&M University-San Antonio)

Technology Facilitated

None found today.

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

A two-track system: Police officer discretion in enforcement of personal use and possession of drugs in Sweden's zero-tolerance setting

Sexual Offending with Child-Like Sex Dolls in Australia: An Analysis of Court Cases

Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: offending, court
First author: Kelly Richards (Queensland University of Technology) [+2 other authors]

Testing the Importation Model Among Incarcerated Young Adults: Do Risk Assessment Tools Predict Prison Misconduct?

Journal: The Prison Journal
Keywords: breach, offender, prison, inmate, incarcerate, correctional, regulation
First author: Virginija Klimukiene (Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania) [+2 other authors]

Victimization

Development and Validation of the Psychological Abuse in Relationships Scale

Policing

Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy

A two-track system: Police officer discretion in enforcement of personal use and possession of drugs in Sweden's zero-tolerance setting

Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application

Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: police, policing
First author: Kristine Eck (Aalborg University)

Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective

Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: policing
First author: Matthew Light (University of Toronto) [+3 other authors]

Post-election riots and the dilemmas of democratic policing: recent experience in the United States and Brazil

Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: policing
First author: David A. Sklansky (Stanford Law School)

Politicians and police in the face of democratic change in Chile and Colombia

Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: police, policing
First author: Hugo Frühling (Faculty of Government Universidad de Chile) [+1 other author]

The underplayed importance of shocks in policing studies

Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: policing
First author: Sebastian Roché (CNRS – University of Grenoble-Alpes) [+1 other author]

Harmful or helpful? Trust in the police after a shock: a test of (dual) expectancy disconfirmation theory

Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: police, policing
First author: Sebastian Roché (Université Grenoble-Alpes) [+1 other author]

Codification, confusion and crisis: police-government relations when responding to February 2022 protests in Ottawa and Wellington

Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: police, policing
First author: Kent Roach (University of Toronto)

The global political economy of private sector intelligence and the African challenge

Journal: Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
Keywords: terrorism, policing
First author: Ngboawaji Daniel Nte (Novena University)

Courts

A two-track system: Police officer discretion in enforcement of personal use and possession of drugs in Sweden's zero-tolerance setting

From Control to Complicity: Judicial Constraints, Control Balance Theory, and Internet Services’ Role in Online Child Sexual Exploitation

Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: exploitation, judicial
First author: Claire Nolasco Braaten (Texas A&M University-San Antonio)

Sexual Offending with Child-Like Sex Dolls in Australia: An Analysis of Court Cases

Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: offending, court
First author: Kelly Richards (Queensland University of Technology) [+2 other authors]

Corrections

A two-track system: Police officer discretion in enforcement of personal use and possession of drugs in Sweden's zero-tolerance setting

Testing the Importation Model Among Incarcerated Young Adults: Do Risk Assessment Tools Predict Prison Misconduct?

Public Policy

Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy

A two-track system: Police officer discretion in enforcement of personal use and possession of drugs in Sweden's zero-tolerance setting

“A Deviation from the Norm”: Qualitative Scholars’ Perceptions of Self and Belonging in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: criminal justice
First author: Shannon K. Jacobsen (Drexel University) [+1 other author]

Testing the Importation Model Among Incarcerated Young Adults: Do Risk Assessment Tools Predict Prison Misconduct?

Unsorted Research

All of today's research was sorted into the above categories.

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How did people who used drugs in the first year of a decriminalization pilot project see their interactions with police?

As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

Research by type of crime

Violence

Property

Drugs

White Collar

Organized

Technology Facilitated

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

Victimization

Policing

Courts

Corrections

Public Policy

Unsorted Research

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