Alex Stevens is a Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of Kent. He has worked on issues of drugs, crime and health in the voluntary sector, as an academic researcher and as an adviser to the UK government, and has published extensively on these issues.

"This is a highly recommendable book that does a good job of showing the necessity of situating drug policy and drug policy research in a much broader political and institutional context than is often the case. ...this book shows not only the possibility of placing drug policy research and drug policy debate in a broader political and institutional context, but also the necessity to do so." Esben Houborg Center for Alcohol and Drug Research Aarhus University, Denmark

• 1. Starting Points: Drugs, Values and Drug Policy 2. ‘Afflictions of Inequality’? The Social Distribution of Drug Use, Dependence and Related Harms 3. Beyond the Tripartite Framework: The Subterranean Structuration of the Drug-Crime Link 4. Telling Policy Stories: Governmental Use of Evidence and Policy on Drugs and Crime 5. The Ideology of Exclusion: Cases in English Drug Policy 6. The Effects of Drug Policy 7. International Perspectives: Does Drug Policy Matter? 8. Towards Progressive Decriminalisation

Alex Stevens is a Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of Kent. He has worked on issues of drugs, crime and health in the voluntary sector, as an academic researcher and as an adviser to the UK government, and has published extensively on these issues.

"This is a highly recommendable book that does a good job of showing the necessity of situating drug policy and drug policy research in a much broader political and institutional context than is often the case. ...this book shows not only the possibility of placing drug policy research and drug policy debate in a broader political and institutional context, but also the necessity to do so." Esben Houborg Center for Alcohol and Drug Research Aarhus University, Denmark

• 1. Starting Points: Drugs, Values and Drug Policy 2. ‘Afflictions of Inequality’? The Social Distribution of Drug Use, Dependence and Related Harms 3. Beyond the Tripartite Framework: The Subterranean Structuration of the Drug-Crime Link 4. Telling Policy Stories: Governmental Use of Evidence and Policy on Drugs and Crime 5. The Ideology of Exclusion: Cases in English Drug Policy 6. The Effects of Drug Policy 7. International Perspectives: Does Drug Policy Matter? 8. Towards Progressive Decriminalisation

Alex Stevens is a Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of Kent. He has worked on issues of drugs, crime and health in the voluntary sector, as an academic researcher and as an adviser to the UK government, and has published extensively on these issues.

"This is a highly recommendable book that does a good job of showing the necessity of situating drug policy and drug policy research in a much broader political and institutional context than is often the case. ...this book shows not only the possibility of placing drug policy research and drug policy debate in a broader political and institutional context, but also the necessity to do so." Esben Houborg Center for Alcohol and Drug Research Aarhus University, Denmark

• 1. Starting Points: Drugs, Values and Drug Policy 2. ‘Afflictions of Inequality’? The Social Distribution of Drug Use, Dependence and Related Harms 3. Beyond the Tripartite Framework: The Subterranean Structuration of the Drug-Crime Link 4. Telling Policy Stories: Governmental Use of Evidence and Policy on Drugs and Crime 5. The Ideology of Exclusion: Cases in English Drug Policy 6. The Effects of Drug Policy 7. International Perspectives: Does Drug Policy Matter? 8. Towards Progressive Decriminalisation