ABSTRACT

Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement. The chamelion reality of the world of drug trafficking is described in the words of traffickers and detectives. Drug enforcement combines the banal and spectacular in surveillance, covert operations and criminal intelligence. The war on drugs is a harbinger of wider changes in the organisation of policing and international cooperation. Traffickers explores the struggle that transforms policing and punishment as it stimulates the imagination.

part |2 pages

Part I Drug traffickers

chapter 2|15 pages

Going for cover: trafficking as a sideline

chapter 3|11 pages

Things get nasty

Enter the criminal diversifier

chapter 4|19 pages

Contested streets: retailing into the 1990s

Retailing into 1990s

part |2 pages

Part II Enforcement strategies

chapter 5|15 pages

Policing from the top down

From US theory to UK practice

chapter 6|18 pages

City drug squads

Surveillance and buy operations

chapter 7|21 pages

Policing localities

Street operations

part |2 pages

Part III Key issues in drug enforcement

chapter 8|29 pages

Informants and stings

Tradition and innovation in plainclothes work

chapter 9|28 pages

Intelligence rules

The centralisation of policing in Britain

chapter 10|25 pages

The punishment illusion

Your money and your life?