Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of Liverpool
Ross Coomber, PhD is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool (UK). He was previously Director of the Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and before that, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Drug and Alcohol Research Unit at the University of Plymouth (UK). He has 30 years research experience in the drug and alcohol field and has written extensively in this space, particularly on the machinations of illicit drug markets. In 2013 he undertook a rapid ethnographic and cross-cultural observational tour of six Asian countries looking at public spitting.
Instadrugs: new research reveals hidden dangers when young people use apps to buy illicit substances
Jan 27, 2019 14:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Markets for illicit drugs are constantly evolving to increase profits and reduce risks to suppliers in response to law enforcement tactics. New technologies have been taken up with enthusiasm: from the use of pagers and...
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