Charlie Lloyd

Articles by: Charlie Lloyd

Policing of cannabis possession is largely accidental – and many officers don’t think it makes a difference

14th August 2018

Charlie Lloyd, University of York

ANALYSIS: With the on-going debate on the legal status of cannabis, Charlie Lloyd, Geoff Page and Sharon Grace from York University discuss the results of their research in North Yorkshire looking at the day-to-day policing of cannabis possession and analysis of the data on drug possession offences. The research raises important questions about how police forces in England and Wales should deal with this common but to some, trivial, offence.

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Charlie Lloyd
Reader, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
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Charlie has a background in criminology, undertaking research at the University of Cambridge and then the Home Office, where he undertook research on prisons and probation and managed a programme of research on drugs prevention. He then moved to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, where he managed research programmes on young people, drugs and alcohol. In 2010 he moved to the Department of Health Sciences in the University of York, undertaking research and teaching on drug and alcohol use. He joined the Social Policy and Social Work Department in 2017, where he is teaching on criminal justice and substance use, and undertaking research on prison and police responses to drug use.