Change or Continuity in Drug Policy: The Roles of Science, Media, and Interest Groups

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Julie Tieberghien (Ghent University)

Change or Continuity in Drug Policy

The Roles of Science, Media, and Interest Groups

Julie Tieberghien (Ghent University)

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Routledge
08 June 2017

Drug & substance abuse: social aspects; Social work; Penology & punishment; Criminal justice law; Sentencing & punishment

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

While evidence-based policy is an emerging rhetoric of the desire by and for governments to develop policies based on the best available evidence, drug policy is an area where particular challenges abound. This book is a detailed and comprehensive examination of the contours of drug policy development through the consideration of the particular roles of science, media, and interest groups. Using Belgium as the primary case-study, supplemented by insights gathered from other countries, the author contributes to a richer understanding of the science-policy nexus in the messy, real-world complexities of drug policy. Change or Continuity in Drug Policy: The Roles of Science, Media, and Interest Groups is the first book to bring together policy and media theories, knowledge utilisation models, and public scholarship literature. As such, the book provides unique insights relevant to aspects of change or continuity in drug policies in Europe and beyond.

This book will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to academics, practitioners and policymakers with interest in the science-policy nexus with a particular focus on the drug policy domain.

By: Julie Tieberghien (Ghent University)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781138203068
ISBN 10: 1138203068
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 08 June 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Science–Policy Nexus: From Knowledge Utilisation Models to the Evidence Movement 3. Analysing Drug Policy: Documents, Elites, and Related Challenges 4. Incremental Steps in the Opening of a Policy Window 5. Parliamentary Working Group on Drugs: 1996-1997 6. Turbulent Intermezzo: 1997-2000 7. The First National Drug Strategy: Federal Drug Policy Note (2001) 8. The Reform of Belgian Drug Law: 2002-2003 9. Concluding Thoughts References

Julie Tieberghien is currently a post-doctoral fellow of FWO - Research Foundation Flanders - at the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law & Social Law (Ghent University). Her main areas of research are drug policy analysis, newsmaking, and public criminology, and she has published widely in these areas.