This seminar will address issues raised by Professor Geoffrey Pearson’s research into middle market drug distribution in the UK, which looked at how drugs are moved from importation to street level, by whom and for what profit.  The focus is on the social organisation of crime networks operating within middle market drug distribution in modern Britain.  In summary, this research is a contribution to the criminological and sociological understanding of middle and upper-level drug dealing.  The commentators will respond to Professor Pearson's paper and reflect on the situation in NSW

Date:  Thursday 3 April 2003 
Time:  5:30-7:00pm
Venue: Assembly Hall, Level 4, Sydney University Law School, 173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney  
Registration: (inc. GST) $35 waged/$20 concession (students &pensioners)
No charge, Institute of Criminology members

Chair: Associate Professor Lisa Maher, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, University of NSW

Speaker:
Geoffrey Pearson, Professor of Criminology Goldsmith College, University of London, UK

Commentators:
Dr Don Weatherburn, Director, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research;
Professor David Dixon, Faculty of Law, University of NSW