Rebecca Askew
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Askew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Askew |
| SIGNATURE | ASKEW R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6281-227X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why are people with lived and living experience conflicted about the legalisation of drugs? Analysing qualitative data from the UK Drug Policy Voices project using Schwartz’s theory of basic values
Debates about legalisation are complex and conflicted due to value pluralism and value conflict. Multiple values were activated when considering legalisation from the position of one's own drug use, family and friends, and the community
Towards a social harm approach in drug policy
In this paper, we explore how the social harm approach can be adapted within drug policy scholarship. Since the mid-2000s, a group of critical criminologists have moved beyond the concept of crime and criminology, towards the study of social harm. This turn proceeds decades of research that highlights the inequities within the criminal legal system, the formation of laws that protect the privileged and punish the disadvantaged, and the systemic c…
When self-direction meets conformity
Schwartz's ten basic values provided a useful framework for surfacing values that underpin drug policy preferences. These exploratory findings demonstrate that identifying values within dialogue is a complex process and reinforces opposing values can explain policy preference differences. More importantly, policy preferences were underpinned by combinations of values including those that are apparently opposing in Schwartz's circumplex
The importance of People who use drugs within drug policy reform debates
The Drug Policy Voices survey has identified collective values and ideology connected to lived experience that illustrate a clear goal conflict with prohibitionist ideology. PWUD have valuable contributions to make to the policy reform debate, but we must acknowledge that opinions are not formed through drug-related experiences alone. The findings of this research highlight the importance of emphasising the person who uses drugs within participat…
Rethinking enhancement substance use
Deconstructing prohibitionist ideology
Status, stigma and stereotype
A minority of those who consume or supply illegal drugs are detected and subsequently punished for breaching these laws. Thus, only a minority of active ‘drug offenders’ are ever formally subjected to criminal sanctioning, the criminal label, its stigmatizing effects and the resultant collateral consequences. The current article analyses data from two studies on drug offenders – a sample of 26 users and a sample of 25 suppliers – who form part of…
Delivery dilemmas
Silk Road participants neither viewed themselves as immune to, nor passively accepting of, the risk of detection and arrest. Rational choice theorists have viewed offending decisions as constrained by limited access to relevant information. Cryptomarkets as 'illicit capital' sharing communities provide expanded and low-cost access to information enabling drug market participants to make more accurate assessments of the risk of apprehension. The a…
Functional fun
Responsible Citizens and Accountable Service Providers? Renegotiating the Contract between Citizen and State
New forms of governance, conditional approaches to public service access, and initiatives to engage citizens in taking on new responsibilities are being developed in the context of the scaling down of the welfare state. We examine the extent to which collaboration and multidirectional accountability can be developed between the state and citizens, with a focus on a case study of Community Contracts in England. These quasi-legal agreements, operat…
Can policy makers listen to researchers? An application of the design experiment methodology to a local drugs policy intervention
This article reports the UK's first design experiment, a qualitative form of policy evaluation using feedback from intensive observations of an intervention to improve its implementation. The application presented in the article is a local authority programme of intensive support and diversionary activities for a small group of problematic substance users. The article discusses how the experiment took place and focuses on the reluctance of policy…
Status, stigma and stereotype
A minority of those who consume or supply illegal drugs are detected and subsequently punished for breaching these laws. Thus, only a minority of active ‘drug offenders’ are ever formally subjected to criminal sanctioning, the criminal label, its stigmatizing effects and the resultant collateral consequences. The current article analyses data from two studies on drug offenders – a sample of 26 users and a sample of 25 suppliers – who form part of…
Responsible Citizens and Accountable Service Providers? Renegotiating the Contract between Citizen and State
New forms of governance, conditional approaches to public service access, and initiatives to engage citizens in taking on new responsibilities are being developed in the context of the scaling down of the welfare state. We examine the extent to which collaboration and multidirectional accountability can be developed between the state and citizens, with a focus on a case study of Community Contracts in England. These quasi-legal agreements, operat…
Can policy makers listen to researchers? An application of the design experiment methodology to a local drugs policy intervention
This article reports the UK's first design experiment, a qualitative form of policy evaluation using feedback from intensive observations of an intervention to improve its implementation. The application presented in the article is a local authority programme of intensive support and diversionary activities for a small group of problematic substance users. The article discusses how the experiment took place and focuses on the reluctance of policy…
Responsible Citizens and Accountable Service Providers? Renegotiating the Contract between Citizen and State
New forms of governance, conditional approaches to public service access, and initiatives to engage citizens in taking on new responsibilities are being developed in the context of the scaling down of the welfare state. We examine the extent to which collaboration and multidirectional accountability can be developed between the state and citizens, with a focus on a case study of Community Contracts in England. These quasi-legal agreements, operat…
Functional fun
Delivery dilemmas
Silk Road participants neither viewed themselves as immune to, nor passively accepting of, the risk of detection and arrest. Rational choice theorists have viewed offending decisions as constrained by limited access to relevant information. Cryptomarkets as 'illicit capital' sharing communities provide expanded and low-cost access to information enabling drug market participants to make more accurate assessments of the risk of apprehension. The a…
Status, stigma and stereotype
A minority of those who consume or supply illegal drugs are detected and subsequently punished for breaching these laws. Thus, only a minority of active ‘drug offenders’ are ever formally subjected to criminal sanctioning, the criminal label, its stigmatizing effects and the resultant collateral consequences. The current article analyses data from two studies on drug offenders – a sample of 26 users and a sample of 25 suppliers – who form part of…
Deconstructing prohibitionist ideology
Rethinking enhancement substance use
The importance of People who use drugs within drug policy reform debates
The Drug Policy Voices survey has identified collective values and ideology connected to lived experience that illustrate a clear goal conflict with prohibitionist ideology. PWUD have valuable contributions to make to the policy reform debate, but we must acknowledge that opinions are not formed through drug-related experiences alone. The findings of this research highlight the importance of emphasising the person who uses drugs within participat…
When self-direction meets conformity
Schwartz's ten basic values provided a useful framework for surfacing values that underpin drug policy preferences. These exploratory findings demonstrate that identifying values within dialogue is a complex process and reinforces opposing values can explain policy preference differences. More importantly, policy preferences were underpinned by combinations of values including those that are apparently opposing in Schwartz's circumplex
Towards a social harm approach in drug policy
In this paper, we explore how the social harm approach can be adapted within drug policy scholarship. Since the mid-2000s, a group of critical criminologists have moved beyond the concept of crime and criminology, towards the study of social harm. This turn proceeds decades of research that highlights the inequities within the criminal legal system, the formation of laws that protect the privileged and punish the disadvantaged, and the systemic c…
Why are people with lived and living experience conflicted about the legalisation of drugs? Analysing qualitative data from the UK Drug Policy Voices project using Schwartz’s theory of basic values
Debates about legalisation are complex and conflicted due to value pluralism and value conflict. Multiple values were activated when considering legalisation from the position of one's own drug use, family and friends, and the community
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 works)