Jack Spicer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3951231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Spicer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Spicer |
| SIGNATURE | SPICER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4250-2749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chaotic conceptualisation, hyper-chronocentrism and cautionary tales
A decade after County Lines drug supply was initially identified by the National Crime Agency, this article critically examines its cultural legacy. While County Lines has become embedded within public, political and policy discourse as a novel and urgent threat, this article analyses the concept’s coherence and the knowledge claims surrounding it. Drawing on theoretical tools associated with critical realism and cultural criminology, it develops…
Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing
Recent shifts in UK policy have seen certain populations, who were predominantly viewed as offenders due to their involvement in drug offences, increasingly recognized as victims of exploitation. Drawing on qualitative data from three studies, this article interrogates how this trend is playing out within contemporary drugs policing, focussing on officers’ responses to people affected by: drug addiction, child criminal exploitation and ‘cuckooing…
The stigma-vulnerability nexus and the framing of drug problems
This paper proposes a stigma-vulnerability nexus as a critical incursion into understandings of and responses to drug-related social problems. Considering stigma and vulnerability as sites of ostensibly empathetic interventions that aim to mitigate the impact of illicit substances, it proposes that the two concepts are best deployed when located within the political economy of drug harms. Doing so foregrounds the material inequalities resulting f…
Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction
Breaking supply chains’. A commentary on the new UK Drug Strategy
Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction
Between gang talk and prohibition
The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing
Responding to cases of ‘cuckooing’, where drug dealers take over other people’s homes, has become a significant policing activity in the United Kingdom. Drawing on ethnographic data and the deviancy amplification spiral model, this article theorizes how police responses to cuckooing emerged, developed and became established. Five stages of the spiral are outlined: identifying cuckooing as a problem; demonstrating a response; spreading the problem…
That’s their brand, their business’
A recent development in drug markets across England and Wales garnering increased attention is the phenomenon of ‘County Lines’. This involves drug supply groups migrating from major cities to smaller towns, and has become associated with a range of harms including violence and the exploitation of vulnerable populations. Drawing on interviews with police officers of various ranks tasked with responding to County Lines, this article explores how t…
[If I had invented homosexuality…]
Exercise
[A Plan for a Book on Tarot]
If the average person has heard of a Tarot deck at all, he is likely to associate it with dark rooms full of cheesecloth ectoplasm, old women who make a practice of sticking pins in wax dolls, or one of the various seedy attempts to exploit the occult which, for all their impressive trappings, move the modern man to pity rather than to terror. If he had the further misfortune to read one of the many books written on the interpretation of Tarot ca…
That’s their brand, their business’
A recent development in drug markets across England and Wales garnering increased attention is the phenomenon of ‘County Lines’. This involves drug supply groups migrating from major cities to smaller towns, and has become associated with a range of harms including violence and the exploitation of vulnerable populations. Drawing on interviews with police officers of various ranks tasked with responding to County Lines, this article explores how t…
Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing
Recent shifts in UK policy have seen certain populations, who were predominantly viewed as offenders due to their involvement in drug offences, increasingly recognized as victims of exploitation. Drawing on qualitative data from three studies, this article interrogates how this trend is playing out within contemporary drugs policing, focussing on officers’ responses to people affected by: drug addiction, child criminal exploitation and ‘cuckooing…
The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing
Responding to cases of ‘cuckooing’, where drug dealers take over other people’s homes, has become a significant policing activity in the United Kingdom. Drawing on ethnographic data and the deviancy amplification spiral model, this article theorizes how police responses to cuckooing emerged, developed and became established. Five stages of the spiral are outlined: identifying cuckooing as a problem; demonstrating a response; spreading the problem…
[A Plan for a Book on Tarot]
If the average person has heard of a Tarot deck at all, he is likely to associate it with dark rooms full of cheesecloth ectoplasm, old women who make a practice of sticking pins in wax dolls, or one of the various seedy attempts to exploit the occult which, for all their impressive trappings, move the modern man to pity rather than to terror. If he had the further misfortune to read one of the many books written on the interpretation of Tarot ca…
[If I had invented homosexuality…]
Exercise
That’s their brand, their business’
A recent development in drug markets across England and Wales garnering increased attention is the phenomenon of ‘County Lines’. This involves drug supply groups migrating from major cities to smaller towns, and has become associated with a range of harms including violence and the exploitation of vulnerable populations. Drawing on interviews with police officers of various ranks tasked with responding to County Lines, this article explores how t…
Between gang talk and prohibition
The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing
Responding to cases of ‘cuckooing’, where drug dealers take over other people’s homes, has become a significant policing activity in the United Kingdom. Drawing on ethnographic data and the deviancy amplification spiral model, this article theorizes how police responses to cuckooing emerged, developed and became established. Five stages of the spiral are outlined: identifying cuckooing as a problem; demonstrating a response; spreading the problem…
Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction
Breaking supply chains’. A commentary on the new UK Drug Strategy
Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction
The stigma-vulnerability nexus and the framing of drug problems
This paper proposes a stigma-vulnerability nexus as a critical incursion into understandings of and responses to drug-related social problems. Considering stigma and vulnerability as sites of ostensibly empathetic interventions that aim to mitigate the impact of illicit substances, it proposes that the two concepts are best deployed when located within the political economy of drug harms. Doing so foregrounds the material inequalities resulting f…
Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing
Recent shifts in UK policy have seen certain populations, who were predominantly viewed as offenders due to their involvement in drug offences, increasingly recognized as victims of exploitation. Drawing on qualitative data from three studies, this article interrogates how this trend is playing out within contemporary drugs policing, focussing on officers’ responses to people affected by: drug addiction, child criminal exploitation and ‘cuckooing…
Chaotic conceptualisation, hyper-chronocentrism and cautionary tales
A decade after County Lines drug supply was initially identified by the National Crime Agency, this article critically examines its cultural legacy. While County Lines has become embedded within public, political and policy discourse as a novel and urgent threat, this article analyses the concept’s coherence and the knowledge claims surrounding it. Drawing on theoretical tools associated with critical realism and cultural criminology, it develops…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Computer security (3 works)