The impact of the Great Recession on the Irish drug market

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dc.contributor.authorWindle, James
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-20T16:32:45Z
dc.date.available2019-03-20T16:32:45Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-10
dc.date.updated2019-03-20T16:28:36Z
dc.description.abstractThis article analyses 10 years (2004–2014) of An Garda Síochána controlled drug data to investigate the impact of economic recession and globalization on the Irish illicit drug market. The limited international literature on recessions and drug markets suggests that economic downturns can increase both drug consumption and dealing. Gardaí data may, however, suggest that the 2008 Great Recession reduced drug use and dealing, yet increased the cultivation and manufacture of drugs: trends which largely conflict with the international literature. Two testable hypotheses are drawn from the data: (1) net consumption and trade of illicit drugs were reduced by emigration triggered by the Great Recession; (2) the Great Recession forced an adaptation in the market which sped up the process towards import substitution of cannabis cultivation. The article concludes by investigating how recent changes highlight the globalized nature of Irish drug markets before proposing avenues for further research.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationWindle, J. (2018) 'The impact of the Great Recession on the Irish drug market', Criminology & Criminal Justice, 18(5), pp. 548-567. doi: 10.1177/1748895817741518en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1748895817741518
dc.identifier.endpage567en
dc.identifier.issn1748-8958
dc.identifier.issued5en
dc.identifier.journaltitleCriminology & Criminal Justiceen
dc.identifier.startpage548en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7648
dc.identifier.volume18en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748895817741518
dc.rights© The Author 2017. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. The published version is available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748895817741518en
dc.subjectCannabis cultivationen
dc.subjectEconomic recessionen
dc.subjectEmigrationen
dc.subjectGlobalizationen
dc.subjectIllicit drug marketsen
dc.subjectImport substitutionen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.titleThe impact of the Great Recession on the Irish drug marketen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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