Drug policy and the criminal legal system

Auditorium VI
In programme
Wednesday, 23 October, 2024 - 13:20 to 14:50
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About

This session explores the many ways that the criminal legal system can reduce or intensify harms related to using drugs. Presentations range from country-specific case studies to a systemative review of international evidence.

Chair

Giommoni
Luca
Reader in Criminology
Cardiff University

Type

Oral presentation session

Tracks

Drug policy: latest developments and new challenges

Keywords

Europe
Qualitative methods
Policy
Mental health and wellbeing
Criminal justice/prisons
Quantitative methods
Health inequalities
Prevention
Harm reduction
Hepatitis
HIV
North America
Overdose
Drug user's perspectives

Presentations

Wednesday, 23 October

13:20

Oral presentation

Drug-induced homicide laws in the US: current trends, stakeholder opinions, and public health impacts

13:20 to 14:50
Auditorium VI
Jennifer Carroll

Oral presentation

Global coverage of interventions to prevent and manage injecting drug use related harms in prisons: a systematic review

13:20 to 14:50
Auditorium VI
Thomas Santo Jr.

Oral presentation

MATPACT: An innovative approach to finding Scotland’s forgotten generation

13:20 to 14:50
Auditorium VI
Marion Gillies

Oral presentation

Policy and Practice Responses to Drug-Related Deaths: Governance issues in English and Welsh Prisons, 2015-2021

13:20 to 14:50
Auditorium VI
Karen Duke
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