Ross Coomber

Ross Coomber s Professor of Sociology and Director of the Drug and Alcohol Research Unit at Plymouth University. He has been involved in researching a wide range of issues relating to drug use, drug supply and formal and informal interventions in many societies around the world for over twenty-five years. He has published extensively within the drug field and is the author of Pusher Myths: Re-Situating the Drug Dealer(2006) and co-editor of Drug Use and Cultural Contexts ′Beyond the West′ (2004) (both Free Association Books). Karen McElrath is a Reader in Criminology at Queen′s University, Belfast. Her current research interests focus on: 1) new psychoactive stimulants; 2) methadone maintenance as social control, and 3) changing patterns of crime in the context of political conflict. Her research is often ′user-led′ and she has been actively involved with various drug services and governmental bodies in an advisory capacity. She is the author/editor of three books, over thirty journal articles and book chapters and of numerous reports to government bodies. Karenza Moore is lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University. She has published widely on illicit drug use, particularly the relationship between drug policy, law enforcement practices and prevalence and patterns of drug use in leisure settings. She has also published on electronic dance music (EDM) cultures and on social aspects of new media technologies. Fiona Measham is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Lancaster University and is an internationally renowned researcher with 20 years′ experience in the field of drug and alcohol studies, gender, licensed leisure and the night time economy. She is co-author of Illegal Leisure(1998), Dancing on Drugs(2001) and Illegal Leisure Revisited(2010), based on large scale studies of young people′s drug and alcohol use, and co-editor of Swimming with Crocodiles(2008), a cross cultural comparison of young people′s ′extreme drinking′. Fiona is a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Contemporary Drug Problems, Drugs and Alcohol Todayand Alcohol and Culture, as well as regular referee for a wide range of academic journals.