TY  - JOUR
AB  - This article provides an overview of the opportunities enforcement has to undertake activities to reduce harms caused by drug markets. Four pathways are open to the police in relation to drug harm‐reduction: reducing the amount of drug use; reducing the harm that drug users experience; reducing the harms that drug users impose on others; and reducing the harms caused by drug markets. It is the latter pathway that is the main focus of this article, which draws on a range of international examples. After highlighting that ‘not all dealers are equally destructive’ it is argued that one aim for enforcement could be to shape the drug market by making the most noxious forms of selling uncompetitive relative to less harmful practices.
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SN  - 1757-8043
DO  - 10.1108/17578043200900003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200900003
AU  - Caulkins Jonathan
AU  - Reuter Peter
PY  - 2009
Y1  - 2009/01/01
TI  - Towards a harm‐reduction approach to enforcement
T2  - Safer Communities
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 9
EP  - 23
Y2  - 2024/05/13
ER  -