Rick Lines
Biographic Data
| ID | 6549565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rick Lines |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rick |
| FAMILY NAME | Lines |
| SIGNATURE | LINES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor of Criminology and Human Rights, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK, [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9044-1093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Treatment in Liberty’ Human Rights and Compulsory Detention for Drug Use
This is the first detailed examination of compulsory detention for ‘drug treatment’ through the lens of a rapidly evolving international legal framework. It is estimated that as many as half a million people worldwide are detained for the purpose of ‘drug treatment’, many held for months or years at a time without being charged criminally or being able to challenge the legality of their detention. This is therefore a key issue sitting at the inte…
Child-centred harm reduction
Harm reduction has become increasingly influential in drug policy and practice, but has developed primarily around adult drug use. Theoretical, practical, ethical and legal issues pertaining to children and adolescents under the age of majority - both relating to their own use and the effects of drug use among parents or within the family - are less clear. This commentary proposes a sub-field of drug policy at the intersection of harm reduction a…
Damon Barrett, Child Rights and Drug Control
Injecting drugs into human rights advocacy
Harm reduction in prisons
Throughout most of the world, the primary response to problems associated with illicit injection drug use has been to intensify law enforcement efforts. This strategy has contributed to an unprecedented growth in prison populations and growing concerns regarding drug-related harm within prisons. Despite the presence of international laws and guidelines that call for the protection of the health of prisoners, prison authorities have generally been…
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Harm reduction in prisons
Throughout most of the world, the primary response to problems associated with illicit injection drug use has been to intensify law enforcement efforts. This strategy has contributed to an unprecedented growth in prison populations and growing concerns regarding drug-related harm within prisons. Despite the presence of international laws and guidelines that call for the protection of the health of prisoners, prison authorities have generally been…
Injecting drugs into human rights advocacy
Damon Barrett, Child Rights and Drug Control
Treatment in Liberty’ Human Rights and Compulsory Detention for Drug Use
This is the first detailed examination of compulsory detention for ‘drug treatment’ through the lens of a rapidly evolving international legal framework. It is estimated that as many as half a million people worldwide are detained for the purpose of ‘drug treatment’, many held for months or years at a time without being charged criminally or being able to challenge the legality of their detention. This is therefore a key issue sitting at the inte…
Child-centred harm reduction
Harm reduction has become increasingly influential in drug policy and practice, but has developed primarily around adult drug use. Theoretical, practical, ethical and legal issues pertaining to children and adolescents under the age of majority - both relating to their own use and the effects of drug use among parents or within the family - are less clear. This commentary proposes a sub-field of drug policy at the intersection of harm reduction a…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Drug control (3 works) · Harm (3 works) · Harm reduction (3 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (3 works)