Practitioner perspectives on dealing with victimhood and offending in UK ‘County Lines’ drug supply investigations

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Lydon, D. and Emanuel, Peter 2024. Practitioner perspectives on dealing with victimhood and offending in UK ‘County Lines’ drug supply investigations. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258x241275858
AuthorsLydon, D. and Emanuel, Peter
AbstractThis paper examines the investigative challenges associated with the ‘County Lines’ drug supply phenomenon from the perspective of police practitioners. Two areas are identified and explored: the presence and role of autonomy, coercion, and exploitation, and the legal and procedural issues. The police response appears confounded by non-specific legislation, unintended implications of the statutory defence, problems with the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), safeguarding deficiencies, incomplete statutory guardianship, and limited recognition of neurodevelopment and neurodivergence among those involved. The research is relevant to law and public policy and will be of interest to investigators and criminal justice system professionals.
KeywordsCounty lines; Vulnerability; Neurodiversity; Neurodevelopment
Year2024
JournalThe Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
PublisherSAGE Publications
ISSN0032-258X
1740-5599
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258x241275858
Official URLhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032258X241275858
FunderCollege of Policing
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Online19 Aug 2024
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Deposited04 Jul 2024
Accepted26 Jun 2024
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