Drugs and Crime

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Tammy Ayres is an associate professor of criminology in the School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leicester. She is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the area of drugs, consumerism, prisons and terrorism, which is reflected in her research as well as her publications. Writing on drug policy, drug use and the intersection of drugs, pleasure and consumer capitalism, she uses critical theory and continental philosophy in an attempt to proffer new ways of theorising about drugs in contemporary society, as well as in prisons. An accomplished prison researcher, she has over 23-years’ experience of... More About Author

Dr Stuart Taylor is Staff Tutor in Social Policy and Criminology at the Open University. He has spent the last 25 years working in the criminal justice/criminological trenches, initially as a practitioner with Derbyshire and Merseyside Probation Services, and latterly as an academic at both Liverpool John Moores University and the Open University. His primary interests lie in the field of substance use and the interconnections between sociocultural construction of ‘drugs’, prohibitionist drug policies and social harm. Previous research projects have included studies on cannabis use and cultivation, and the employment of self-testing drug... More About Author