Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World. By Avital Livny. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. $99.99 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592721001389
Abstract: corruption, co-optation, and coercion that are often used to explain the interaction between state actors and criminal groups. The gray zone of criminality opens up the black box of informal practices and sets the table… read more here.
Keywords: trejo ley; violence; drug; drug markets ... See more keywords
Symbolic policing: situating targeted police operations/‘crackdowns’ on street-level drug markets
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DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2017.1323893
Abstract: ABSTRACT The policing of local drug markets in England often takes the form of specific, high-profile, crackdown operations which themselves are mostly a generic, periodic response to particular criminality. Drawing on Innes’ (2004) concept of… read more here.
Keywords: policing situating; crackdown operations; drug; situating targeted ... See more keywords
Open drug markets, vulnerable neighbourhoods and gun violence in two Swedish cities
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DOI: 10.1080/18335330.2021.1889019
Abstract: ABSTRACT Gun violence is a serious issue in many countries across the globe. It has been shown that there is an elevated risk for a further shooting nearby within a short time span of a… read more here.
Keywords: violence; open drug; markets vulnerable; gun violence ... See more keywords
Social Supply and the Potential for Harm Reduction in Social Media Drug Markets
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DOI: 10.1177/00914509231178940
Abstract: Existing studies have highlighted the potential for increased drug market risks from buying drugs via social media involving strangers, such as receiving adulterated drugs or being robbed. However, social supply-driven social media drug markets may… read more here.
Keywords: social media; drug markets; media drug; harm reduction ... See more keywords
Broken drug markets in infectious diseases: Opportunities outside the private sector?
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007190
Abstract: Author summary A subset of anti-infective drugs are increasingly unavailable for patients in the United States due to pricing or withdrawal from the market. Timely market solutions are needed. We assert that solutions to ensure… read more here.
Keywords: diseases opportunities; infectious diseases; opportunities outside; broken drug ... See more keywords
Community correlates of change: A mixed-effects assessment of shooting dynamics during COVID-19
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263777
Abstract: This study examines changes in gun violence at the census tract level in Philadelphia, PA before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Piecewise generalized linear mixed effects models are used to test the… read more here.
Keywords: drug markets; drug; community correlates; police activity ... See more keywords
“The Drug Sellers Were Better Organized than the Government”: A Qualitative Study of Participants’ Views of Drug Markets during COVID-19 and Other Big Events
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20021295
Abstract: “Big events”, such as wars, economic crises, pandemics, or natural disasters, affect the risk environment in which people use drugs. While the impact of big events on injection risk behaviors and access to drug-treatment services… read more here.
Keywords: events drug; drug sellers; drug markets; big events ... See more keywords