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This study examined how policy gets formed by police, and what influences the policy formulation process to provide new insights about the interface of science and policy, such that more effective drug policies become possible.

Through a comparative case study approach, this project:

  1. assessed the scientific merit of the two competing policy process theories (Kingdon鈥檚 Multiple Streams and Sabatier鈥檚 Advocacy Coalition Framework) across two case studies (drug detection dogs and police attendance at drug overdose) 2. examined their applicability to the unique policing context; and 3. studied the ways in which each theory can account for the interface between science and policy.
Research Centre

Social Policy Research Centre

Research Area

Drug Policy Modelling Program

2014 to 2016

Journal articles: Lancaster, K. Ritter, A. Hughes, C. & Hoppe, R. (2016) A critical examination of the introduction of drug detection dogs for policing of illicit drugs in New South Wales, Australia using Kingdon's 'multiple streams' heuristic.听Evidence and Policy. Hughes, C., Ritter, A., Lancaster, K. & Hoppe, R. (2017) Understanding policy persistence - the case of police drug detection dog policy in NSW, Australia.听International Journal of Drug Policy Lancaster, K., Hughes, C. & Ritter, A. (2016) 鈥淒rug dogs unleashed鈥: An historical and political account of drug detection dogs for street-level policing of illicit drugs in New South Wales, Australia"聽Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Ritter, A., & Lancaster K. (2018). Chapter 14: Kingdon鈥檚 multiple streams. Handbook of the Policy, Process, and Governing. London: Edward Elgar. Ritter, A., & Lancaster, K. (2013) Illicit drugs, policing and the evidence-based policy paradigm,聽Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice.听 Ritter, A., Hughes, C. E., Lancaster, K., & Hoppe, R. (2018). Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Multiple Streams policy theories to examine the role of evidence, research and other types of knowledge in drug policy.听Addiction.听 Conference presentations: Ritter, A. Drug detection dogs seen through the eyes of the Advocacy Coalition Framework compared to Multiple Streams: the science-policy interface. ISSDP Conference, May 2017 Lancaster, K. (2016, August) Drug dogs unleashed: policy processes, politics and 鈥榚vidence-based drug policy鈥. Invited guest lecture at the School of Social Sciences, 91色情片, 8 August, Sydney. Lancaster, K. (2016, April)聽Examining the introduction of drug detection dogs for street-level policing of drugs in NSW. Invited guest lecture at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, 91色情片, 18 April, Sydney. Lancaster, K., Ritter, A., Hughes, C. & Hoppe, R. (2015, November) 鈥楢n idea whose time has come?鈥 Examining the introduction of drug detection dogs for street-level policing of drugs in NSW. Paper presented at聽the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre Seminar Series, 12 November, Sydney. Hughes, C. (2016, February). Drug laws, drug law enforcement and drug law reform in Australia: Policy dilemmas and real-world impacts, Invited RAND DPRC Seminar, 23 February, Santa Monica, USA. Other outputs: Ritter, A. What keeps me up at night 鈥 illicit drug policy. Unsomnia @ 91色情片, 1st December, 2016 Ritter, A. Facilitator NSW Harm Minimisation Summit, August, 2016 Lancaster, K. Invited delegate at the NSW Roundtable to explore better approaches to addressing drug related harms (led by Senator Richard Di Natale, Leader of the Australian Greens, and David Shoebridge NSW Greens MLC), Parliament of New South Wales, 19 February 2016 Hughes, C. Policy briefing to the Commonwealth Department of Health. Approaches to Policing and Safety at Music Festivals: Do Police Dogs Help? Canberra, 13 December 2016. Hughes, C. Policy briefing to the City of Sydney, NSW Health and NSW Police exploring better approaches to managing the NSW night-time economy 鈥 including the police use of drug detection dogs, Sydney, 29 November 2017. .

ARC Discovery Project

  • Caitlin Hughes
  • Robert Hoppe

Related people

Scientia Professor Alison Ritter
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Scientia Associate Professor Kari Lancaster
Scientia Associate Professor
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