'County lines' drug dealing article wins top prize
An article on the policing of ‘county lines’ drug dealing has been awarded the prestigious Radzinowicz Prize by the editors of the British Journal of Criminology.
‘The policing of cuckooing in “County Lines” drug dealing’, by the Bristol-based academic Dr Jack Spicer, examines the policing of so-called ‘cuckooing’, where drug dealers take over other people’s homes. The article explores how police responses to cuckooing emerged, developed and became established.
The British Journal of Criminology is one of the world's top criminology journals, with an independent Editorial Board lead by Editor-in-Chief Professor Eamonn Carrabine of the University of Essex.
The Journal publishes work of the highest quality from around the world and across all areas of criminology. It is published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, which originally established the Journal in 1950.
The Radzinowicz Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes in criminology, awarded annually by the editors of the British Journal of Criminology to the article they judge to have contributed most to knowledge of criminal justice issues and the development of criminology.