Drugs, Prisons and Policy-Making [Hardcover]

In this fascinating new work, Karen Duke explores the conflicts and contradictory pressures in the development of prison drugs policy in Britain from 1980 to the present. Based on interviews with key policy actors and documentary analysis, it explores how policy networks around drug issues in prisons have attempted to contain the contradictions between treatment and punishment and how their activities have been shaped by the ways in which the drugs issue is framed, the roles of research, evidence and knowledge, and the impact of wider social, political, policy and institutional contexts.List of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Analysing Prison Drugs Policy: Problems, Networks and Contexts 1980-1986: Prelude to Policy Development 1986-1993: The HIV/AIDS Crisis and Fears of Contamination 1993-1997: Coming Clean and Taking Control? 1997: Eradication to Realism? Conclusions: Shifting Agendas and Policy Networks Appendices References Index

'...recommended as a careful in-depth analysis of prison drug policy, which is also a valuable guide to overall changes in drug and penal policy over the last twenty years.' - Virgina Berridge, Drugs; Education, Prevention and Policy

KAREN DUKE is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Middlesex University, having previously worked in the Home Office. She has conducted various pieces of research for the Home Office, Department of Health and the UK Anti-Drugs Co-ordination Unit and has published in the areas of drugs, prisons, partnerships and refugees.