Crime Prevention Research Review: Disrupting Street-Level Drug Markets

Police throughout the world have implemented a range of strategies and approaches to disrupt street-level drug problems. Some of these approaches to street-level drug law enforcement include crackdowns, raids, buy-busts, third party policing, and problemoriented policing. To determine what is most effective in street-level drug enforcement interventions, we reviewed all available, scientifically rigorous academic studies evaluating a wide range of street-level drug law enforcement interventions.

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Author: Lorraine Mazerolle David W. Soole Sacha Rombouts

Federal Sponsor Agency: COPS

Provider: The Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group

Publication Date: 2007

Publication Type: PDF