The science-policy interface in policy theories: a comparative case study of street-level policing for illicit drugs

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. Evidence and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426416X14683497019265 Hughes, C., Ritter, A., Lancaster, K. & Hoppe, R. (2017) Understanding policy persistence - the case of police drug detection dog policy in NSW, Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.03.007 Lancaster, K., Hughes, C. & Ritter, A. (2016) “Drug dogs unleashed”: An historical and political account of drug detection dogs for street-level policing of illicit drugs in New South Wales, Australia" Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865816642826 Ritter, A., & Lancaster K. (2018). Chapter 14: Kingdon’s multiple streams. Handbook of the Policy, Process, and Governing. London: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784714871.00021 Ritter, A., & Lancaster, K. (2013) Illicit drugs, policing and the evidence-based policy paradigm, Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426413X662662 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. Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14197 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 ‘evidence-based drug policy’. Invited guest lecture at the School of Social Sciences, UNSW, 8 August, Sydney. Lancaster, K. (2016, April) 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, UNSW, 18 April, Sydney. Lancaster, K., Ritter, A., Hughes, C. & Hoppe, R. (2015, November) ‘An idea whose time has come?’ Examining the introduction of drug detection dogs for street-level policing of drugs in NSW. Paper presented at 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 – illicit drug policy. Unsomnia @ UNSW, 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 – including the police use of drug detection dogs, Sydney, 29 November 2017. Media release on NSW Greens Bill to end use of Sniffer Dogs without a warrant – 20 April 2016.