1st Edition

Cuckoo Land The Cuckooing Risk Environment

By Jack Spicer Copyright 2025
114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

114 Pages
by Routledge

Drawing on rich qualitative data, this book presents a novel way of understanding the drug market-related harm of ‘cuckooing’, providing a theoretically informed account of this increasingly high-profile area. Applying the framework of the ‘risk environment’, the book examines why people become cuckooed, how it is responded to and how this exploitative practice is socially produced. In doing... Read more

1. Introduction

 

2. Cuckooing and the Economic Environment

 

3. The Spaces and Places of Cuckooing

 

4. Cuckooing and Drug Policy Choices

 

5. Policing the Cuckooing Risk Environment

 

6. The Social Environment of Cuckooing

 

7. Towards an Enabling Environment for Reducing Cuckooing

Biography

Jack Spicer is a lecturer in criminology at the University of Bath.

"Cuckooing' is a complex problem that presents significant challenges for those involved in policy and practice. In this book, Spicer, an expert on drugs policing and county lines drug supply, draws on original empirical research to provide an innovative analysis of cuckooing through the public health-oriented conceptual framework of the 'risk environment'. It is an important inter-disciplinary contribution that should be read by everyone who wants to deepen their understanding of cuckooing and how to reduce drug market-related harms." - Dr Matthew Bacon, The University of Sheffield