Taking Care of Business
Subtitle: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780199687381
Subjects: Criminology
Description: This study provides an insightful study of specialist detective units assigned to investigating drug offences, based on extensive fieldwork undertaken in two English police service areas, with in-depth analysis of the everyday realities of the 'war on drugs' and the underlying assumptions that operate beneath the presentational canopy of police organisations.