New book tells real stories behind county lines networks

Written by James A. Densley of Metropolitan University and Robert McLean and Carlton Brick of the University of the West of Scotland, Contesting County Lines: Case Studies in Drug Crime and Deviant Entrepreneurship upturns the conventional wisdom surrounding county lines that often portrays drug runners as exploited victims, gang proliferation as a market-driven exercise and suggests a business model facilitated exclusively by smart phone technology and routinely regulated by violence.

Aimed at students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers, this myth-busting, accessible book offers a novel way of thinking about county lines in relation to gangs and serious organised crime and new ideas for drug crime prevention, intervention and enforcement.