Caitlin Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3859604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitlin Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitlin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7835-1976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cascading Constraint and Subsidiary Discretion
This article explores how discretion is managed and exercised across senior, middle, and street levels of policing. It uses qualitative data from two studies in England. The first, a study across three police force areas, involved interviews and focus groups with 221 people who were designers, deliverers, and recipients of police-led drug diversion. The second study used 354 hours of ethnographic observation and 21 interviews to examine stop-and-…
A realist review on the police use of stop and search powers
Proponents of police use of stop and search powers argue that they are essential to prevent crime and improve public safety. However, there is increasing evidence that stop and search generates a range of adverse effects, including poor mental health outcomes. Missing from these debates is an understanding of the mechanisms that drive the practice and why and in what circumstances it can lead to negative outcomes. To fill this gap, a realist revi…
A systematic review of the extent of the Taliban and Farc’s involvement and profit from drug trade and methods of estimating income from the drug trade
Encounters with police drug detection dogs at music festivals amongst people who regularly use ecstasy and/or other illicit stimulants in Australia
Comparing police use of drug detection dogs amongst injecting and non-injecting groups of people who regularly use drugs in Australia
Despite participants who use ecstasy and/other stimulants being more likely than those who regularly inject drugs to report encountering drug dogs in non-festival settings, participants who inject drugs were more likely to report an intensive or invasive drug dog encounter and/or receiving a formal criminal justice consequence. This study reinforces questions about the efficacy and appropriateness of drug dog operations
Profile and correlates of colorimetric reagent kit use among people who use ecstasy/MDMA and other illegal stimulants in Australia
Consommation d’alcool et d’autres produits psychoactifs pendant la pandémie de Covid-19 dans la Global Drug Survey
La Global Drug Survey est une enquête en ligne visant à étudier l’expérience des usagers de drogues en population générale, menée chaque année entre novembre et décembre. Ce volet spécial Covid-19 a été réalisé sur sept semaines, de mai à juin 2020. L’enquête avait comme objectif d’explorer de manière rétrospective l’impact du confinement et des premières semaines du déconfinement sur les consommations de produits psychoactifs en population génér…
Structural and functional changes in an Australian high-level drug trafficking network after exposure to supply changes
The price and mark up of pharmaceutical drugs supplied on the black market
Trends and offending circumstances in the police use of drug detection dogs in New South Wales 2008–2018
New South Wales (NSW) was the first Australian state to introduce drug detection dogs as a street-level policing strategy. In 2006, the NSW Ombudsman released damning evidence that challenged the dogs’ effectiveness. Over a decade later, drug detection dogs remain a core policing policy in NSW, and the powers surrounding their use have expanded. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of drug dog deployment since the NSW Ombudsman Re…
Drug sourcing and motivations among a sample of people involved in the supply of pharmaceutical drugs in Australia
Exploring interrelationships between high-level drug trafficking and other serious and organised crime
Drug trafficking is frequently argued to be the leading driver of other serious and organised crime, but the interrelationships between such activities remain poorly understood. This paper uses open source law enforcement data to explore interrelationships in Australia. A database was compiled of all reported criminal incidents of high-level drug trafficking between 2011 and 2017 and any concurrent charges for other serious and organised crime (S…
Drug-related police encounters across the globe
Social network analysis of Australian poly-drug trafficking networks
Alternate policing strategies
Understanding policy persistence—The case of police drug detection dog policy in NSW, Australia
The deterrent effects of Australian street-level drug law enforcement on illicit drug offending at outdoor music festivals
Assessing the concordance between illicit drug laws on the books and drug law enforcement
The stigmatisation of ‘ice’ and under-reporting of meth/amphetamine use in general population surveys
Dépénalisation et santé publique
Le Portugal s'est résolument engagé dans la voie de la dépénalisation depuis 2001. Si les résultats de cette politique, qui associe une réorientation de l'action policière à un développement des structures de soin, sont parfois difficiles à établir, il reste que le bilan d'ensemble de cette nouvelle stratégie apparaît suffisamment positif pour qu'elle serve de modèle
Deemed Supply in Australian Drug Trafficking Laws
In Australia, eight of the nine legal jurisdictions have enacted ‘deemed supply’ provisions for illicit drug trafficking offences that presume ‘intent to supply’ based on the quantity of a drug an alleged offender is found with and attach criminal liability for the offence of supply. Such laws have been enacted for more than 35 years. In this article we critically examine: the rationale for the widespread adoption of Australian deemed supply laws…
Australian threshold quantities for ‘drug trafficking’
Legal threshold quantities for drug trafficking, over which possession of an illicit drug is deemed ‘trafficking’ as opposed to ‘personal use’ are used in most Australian states and territories. Yet, in spite of known risks from adopting such thresholds, most notably of unjustified conviction of users as traffickers, the capacity of Australian legal thresholds to deliver proportional sanctioning has been subject to limited research. In this study…
Legislating thresholds for drug trafficking
Drug policy coordination
Illuminating dark networks
What Can We Learn From The Portuguese Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs
The issue of decriminalizing illicit drugs is hotly debated, but is rarely subject to evidence-based analysis. This paper examines the case of Portugal, a nation that decriminalized the use and possession of all illicit drugs on 1 July 2001. Drawing upon independent evaluations and interviews conducted with 13 key stakeholders in 2007 and 2009, it critically analyses the criminal justice and health impacts against trends from neighbouring Spain a…
Exploring interrelationships between high-level drug trafficking and other serious and organised crime
Drug trafficking is frequently argued to be the leading driver of other serious and organised crime, but the interrelationships between such activities remain poorly understood. This paper uses open source law enforcement data to explore interrelationships in Australia. A database was compiled of all reported criminal incidents of high-level drug trafficking between 2011 and 2017 and any concurrent charges for other serious and organised crime (S…
News Media Consumption among Young Australians
Research suggests youth make active choices about how they use and respond to media. Yet publicly available information outlining patterns of youth media consumption and how content is perceived - especially in relation to reporting of issues of pertinence to youth - is limited. Using an online survey of 2296 Australians aged 16-24, we measured news media consumption and perceptions of reporting on illicit drugs. The study concluded that Australi…
Capitalising upon political opportunities to reform drug policy
What Can We Learn From The Portuguese Decriminalization of Illicit Drugs
The issue of decriminalizing illicit drugs is hotly debated, but is rarely subject to evidence-based analysis. This paper examines the case of Portugal, a nation that decriminalized the use and possession of all illicit drugs on 1 July 2001. Drawing upon independent evaluations and interviews conducted with 13 key stakeholders in 2007 and 2009, it critically analyses the criminal justice and health impacts against trends from neighbouring Spain a…
Young People's Perceptions of, and Engagement with, News Media Reporting on Illicit Drug Issues
Illicit drug issues have a pervasive presence in mass media. Yet, despite 25 years of research exploring questions of bias, sensationalism and inaccuracies in news media portrayals of illicit drugs, how audiences engage with these portrayals (and their capacity to filter, interpret, deconstruct and even reconstruct media messages) has been neglected. Drawing on focus groups conducted in 2010 with 52 Australian young people aged 16–24 years, this …
How do Australian news media depict illicit drug issues? An analysis of print media reporting across and between illicit drugs, 2003–2008
Illuminating dark networks
Performance Monitoring of Australian Drug Law Enforcement Agencies
Attention to performance monitoring of Australian drug law enforcement (DLE) agencies has increased in recent years. Yet history has shown efforts often come to nothing. Indeed the status quo — where there are undefined goals and scant reliable indicators of performance — has been maintained, despite 25 years of calls for improvement. The purpose of this article is to refocus attention from how Australian DLE performance monitoring ought to be me…
News Media Consumption among Young Australians
Research suggests youth make active choices about how they use and respond to media. Yet publicly available information outlining patterns of youth media consumption and how content is perceived - especially in relation to reporting of issues of pertinence to youth - is limited. Using an online survey of 2296 Australians aged 16-24, we measured news media consumption and perceptions of reporting on illicit drugs. The study concluded that Australi…
Drug policy coordination
Australian threshold quantities for ‘drug trafficking’
Legal threshold quantities for drug trafficking, over which possession of an illicit drug is deemed ‘trafficking’ as opposed to ‘personal use’ are used in most Australian states and territories. Yet, in spite of known risks from adopting such thresholds, most notably of unjustified conviction of users as traffickers, the capacity of Australian legal thresholds to deliver proportional sanctioning has been subject to limited research. In this study…
Legislating thresholds for drug trafficking
Deemed Supply in Australian Drug Trafficking Laws
In Australia, eight of the nine legal jurisdictions have enacted ‘deemed supply’ provisions for illicit drug trafficking offences that presume ‘intent to supply’ based on the quantity of a drug an alleged offender is found with and attach criminal liability for the offence of supply. Such laws have been enacted for more than 35 years. In this article we critically examine: the rationale for the widespread adoption of Australian deemed supply laws…
The stigmatisation of ‘ice’ and under-reporting of meth/amphetamine use in general population surveys
Dépénalisation et santé publique
Le Portugal s'est résolument engagé dans la voie de la dépénalisation depuis 2001. Si les résultats de cette politique, qui associe une réorientation de l'action policière à un développement des structures de soin, sont parfois difficiles à établir, il reste que le bilan d'ensemble de cette nouvelle stratégie apparaît suffisamment positif pour qu'elle serve de modèle
Social network analysis of Australian poly-drug trafficking networks
Alternate policing strategies
Understanding policy persistence—The case of police drug detection dog policy in NSW, Australia
The deterrent effects of Australian street-level drug law enforcement on illicit drug offending at outdoor music festivals
Assessing the concordance between illicit drug laws on the books and drug law enforcement
Drug-related police encounters across the globe
Trends and offending circumstances in the police use of drug detection dogs in New South Wales 2008–2018
New South Wales (NSW) was the first Australian state to introduce drug detection dogs as a street-level policing strategy. In 2006, the NSW Ombudsman released damning evidence that challenged the dogs’ effectiveness. Over a decade later, drug detection dogs remain a core policing policy in NSW, and the powers surrounding their use have expanded. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of drug dog deployment since the NSW Ombudsman Re…
Drug sourcing and motivations among a sample of people involved in the supply of pharmaceutical drugs in Australia
Exploring interrelationships between high-level drug trafficking and other serious and organised crime
Drug trafficking is frequently argued to be the leading driver of other serious and organised crime, but the interrelationships between such activities remain poorly understood. This paper uses open source law enforcement data to explore interrelationships in Australia. A database was compiled of all reported criminal incidents of high-level drug trafficking between 2011 and 2017 and any concurrent charges for other serious and organised crime (S…
Consommation d’alcool et d’autres produits psychoactifs pendant la pandémie de Covid-19 dans la Global Drug Survey
La Global Drug Survey est une enquête en ligne visant à étudier l’expérience des usagers de drogues en population générale, menée chaque année entre novembre et décembre. Ce volet spécial Covid-19 a été réalisé sur sept semaines, de mai à juin 2020. L’enquête avait comme objectif d’explorer de manière rétrospective l’impact du confinement et des premières semaines du déconfinement sur les consommations de produits psychoactifs en population génér…
Structural and functional changes in an Australian high-level drug trafficking network after exposure to supply changes
The price and mark up of pharmaceutical drugs supplied on the black market
Political science (23 works) · Law (18 works) · Criminology (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Drug (14 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (14 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (13 works) · Law (13 works)