Julian Buchanan

DOWNLOADS:

• Examining Drugs, Crime and Criminalisation: An Online Prezi Presentation
• Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs: 9 short videos
• Research Repository: 15 submissions for download
• Ideas Wales Think Tank: Imagining a Drug Policy Fit for Purpose
• Drug Testing Technology Damaging Policy and Practice
• New Labour’s Drug Policy Legacy
• Barriers to Recovery: Stigma and Discrimination

This website provides an overview of my professional  and academic contribution to criminal justice, criminology and social policy. In my early years I worked in Social Services in Liverpool before joining the Merseyside Probation Service. In the mid late 1980s I worked at the ‘coalface’ as a drugs worker and was instrumental in conceptualising and promoting a ‘risk reduction’ approach to substance misuse, and establishing one of the largest multi-agency community drugs teams in the UK. I worked as an academic at Liverpool University, University of Central Lancashire (England) and Glyndwr University (Wales) before moving to Victoria University of Wellington, (New Zealand) to join the Institute of Criminology in 2011.

Particularly interests include:

• problem drug use
• drugs and crime
• social exclusion and social reintegration
• criminal justice/injustice
• racism and the criminal justice system
• parental drug use
• drug interventions and treatment
• online learning

Julian Buchanan CPA, CQSW, DSW, MA, FHEA, PhD

• julianbuchanan@gmail.com
• http://vuw.academia.edu/JulianBuchanan/Research_Interests
• twitter: julianbuchanan

Please note the views expressed are entirely my own and do not represent or reflect my employer