By Dr Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes

Journal articles

Stevens A; Agnew-Pauley W; Bacon M; Glasspoole-Bird H; Hendrie N; Hughes CE; Lloyd C; Monaghan M; Smith R; Sutton C; Williams E; Quinton P, 2025, 'Cascading Constraint and Subsidiary Discretion: Perspectives on Police Discretion From Police-Led Drug Diversion and Stop and Search in England', BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf050

Agnew-Pauley W; Hughes CE; Stevens A, 2025, 'A realist review on the police use of stop and search powers', European Journal of Criminology, 22, pp. 346 - 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14773708241290593

Eassey C; Hughes CE; Wadds P; de Andrade D; Barratt MJ, 2024, 'A systematic review of interventions that impact alcohol and other drug-related harms in licensed entertainment settings and outdoor music festivals', Harm Reduction Journal, 21, pp. 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-024-00949-4

Azizi H; Hughes CE, 2024, 'A systematic review of the extent of the Taliban and FARC’s involvement and profit from drug trade and methods of estimating income from the drug trade', Global Crime, 25, pp. 122 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2024.2351818

Volpe I; Brien R; Grigg J; Tzanetis S; Crawford S; Lyons T; Lee N; McKinnon G; Hughes C; Eade A; Barratt MJ, 2023, '‘We don’t live in a harm reduction world, we live in a prohibition world’: tensions arising in the design of drug alerts', Harm Reduction Journal, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00716-3

Brien R; Volpe I; Grigg J; Lyons T; Hughes C; McKinnon G; Tzanetis S; Crawford S; Eade A; Lee N; Barratt MJ, 2023, 'Co-designing drug alerts for health and community workers for an emerging early warning system in Victoria, Australia', Harm Reduction Journal, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00761-6

Gibbs D; King C; Hughes C; Peacock A; Grigg J; Yuen WS; Sutherland R, 2023, 'Comparing police use of drug detection dogs amongst injecting and non-injecting groups of people who regularly use drugs in Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104223

Volpe I; Brien R; Grigg J; Tzanetis S; Crawford S; Lyons T; Lee N; McKinnon G; Hughes C; Eade A; Barratt MJ, 2023, 'Correction: ‘We don’t live in a harm reduction world, we live in a prohibition world’: tensions arising in the design of drug alerts (Harm Reduction Journal, (2023), 20, 1, (3), 10.1186/s12954-022-00716-3)', Harm Reduction Journal, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00784-z

Brien R; Volpe I; Grigg J; Lyons T; Hughes C; McKinnon G; Tzanetis S; Crawford S; Eade A; Lee N; Barratt MJ, 2023, 'Correction: Co‑designing drug alerts for health and community workers for an emerging early warning system in Victoria, Australia (Harm Reduction Journal, (2023), 20, 1, (30), 10.1186/s12954-023-00761-6)', Harm Reduction Journal, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00783-0

Gibbs D; Peacock A; Hughes C; Grigg J; Chandrasena U; Sutherland R, 2023, 'Encounters with police drug detection dogs at music festivals amongst people who regularly use ecstasy and/or other illicit stimulants in Australia', Drug and Alcohol Review, 42, pp. 555 - 560, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13601

Stevens A; Hughes CE; Hulme S; Cassidy R, 2022, 'Depenalization, diversion and decriminalization: A realist review and programme theory of alternatives to criminalization for simple drug possession', European Journal of Criminology, 19, pp. 29 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370819887514

Peacock A; Gibbs D; Price O; Barratt MJ; Ezard N; Sutherland R; Hill PL; Grigg J; Lenton S; Page R; Salom C; Hughes C; Bruno R, 2021, 'Profile and correlates of colorimetric reagent kit use among people who use ecstasy/MDMA and other illegal stimulants in Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103334

Jauffret-Roustide M; Barratt M; de Dinechin S; Davies E; Gilchrist G; Hughes C; Maier L; Ferris J; Winstock A, 2020, 'Consommation d’alcool et d’autres produits psychoactifs pendant la pandémie de Covid-19 dans la Global Drug Survey : une perspective française', Psychotropes, Vol. 26, pp. 209 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/psyt.262.0209

O'Reilly MJA; Hughes CE; Bright DA; Ritter A, 2020, 'Structural and functional changes in an Australian high-level drug trafficking network after exposure to supply changes', International Journal of Drug Policy, 84, pp. 102797, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102797

Hughes C; Hulme S; Ritter A, 2020, 'The relationship between drug price and purity and population level harm', Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, pp. 1 - 26

Hulme S; Hughes CE; Nielsen S, 2020, 'The price and mark up of pharmaceutical drugs supplied on the black market', International Journal of Drug Policy, 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.102626

Hughes CE; Chalmers J; Bright DA, 2020, 'Exploring interrelationships between high-level drug trafficking and other serious and organised crime: an Australian study', Global Crime, 21, pp. 28 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2019.1615895

Hulme S; Hughes CE; Nielsen S, 2019, 'What factors contributed to the misconduct of health practitioners? An analysis of Australian cases involving the diversion and supply of pharmaceutical drugs for non-medical use between 2010 and 2016', Drug and Alcohol Review, 38, pp. 366 - 376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12918

Hulme S; Hughes CE; Nielsen S, 2019, 'Drug sourcing and motivations among a sample of people involved in the supply of pharmaceutical drugs in Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 66, pp. 38 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.01.022

Agnew-Pauley W; Hughes C, 2019, 'Trends and offending circumstances in the police use of drug detection dogs in New South Wales 2008–2018', Current Issues in Criminal Justice -Sydney-, 31, pp. 4 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2018.1556280

Ritter A; Hughes CE; Lancaster K; Hoppe R, 2018, 'Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Multiple Streams policy theories to examine the role of evidence, research and other types of knowledge in drug policy', Addiction, 113, pp. 1539 - 1547, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14197

Hughes CE; Barratt MJ; Ferris JA; Maier LJ; Winstock AR, 2018, 'Drug-related police encounters across the globe: How do they compare?', International Journal of Drug Policy, 56, pp. 197 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.03.005

Hughes CE, 2018, 'The trajectories of cannabis and tobacco policies in the United States, Uruguay, Canada and Portugal: is more cross-substance learning possible outside the United States?', Addiction, 113, pp. 603 - 605, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.13954

McSweeney T; Hughes C; Ritter A, 2018, 'The impact of compliance with a compulsory model of drug diversion on treatment engagement and reoffending', Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, 25, pp. 56 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2016.1219695

Georgieva I; Bainbridge E; McGuinness D; Keys M; Brosnan L; Felzmann H; Maguire J; Murphy K; Higgins A; McDonald C; Hallahan B, 2017, 'Opinions of key stakeholders concerning involuntary admission of patients under the Mental Health Act 2001', Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 34, pp. 223 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2016.6

Hughes CE; Bright DA; Chalmers J, 2017, 'Social network analysis of Australian poly-drug trafficking networks: How do drug traffickers manage multiple illicit drugs?', Social Networks, 51, pp. 135 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2016.11.004

Lancaster K; Hughes C; Ritter A, 2017, '‘Drug dogs unleashed’: An historical and political account of drug detection dogs for street-level policing of illicit drugs in New South Wales, Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 50, pp. 360 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865816642826

Hughes CE; Chalmers J; Klimoski M, 2017, 'Assessing concordance between trends in high-level drug trafficking and other serious and organised crimes in Australia, 2005–2006 to 2014–2015', Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 25, pp. 217 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2017.1358357

Hughes CE; Moxham-Hall VL, 2017, 'The Going Out In Sydney app: Evaluating the utility of a smartphone app for monitoring real-world illicit drug use and police encounters amongst festival and club goers', Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178221817711419

Hughes CE; Ritter A; Lancaster K; Hoppe R, 2017, 'Understanding policy persistence – the case of police drug detection dog policy in NSW, Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 44, pp. 58 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.03.007

Hughes CE; Weedon-Newstead AS, 2017, 'Investigating displacement effects as a result of the Sydney, NSW alcohol lockout legislation', Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2017.1306023

Shanahan M; Hughes CE; McSweeney T; Griffin BA, 2017, 'Alternate policing strategies: Cost-effectiveness of cautioning for cannabis offences', International Journal of Drug Policy, 41, pp. 140 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.12.012

Hughes CE; Moxham-Hall V; Ritter A; Weatherburn D; MacCoun R, 2017, 'The deterrent effects of Australian street-level drug law enforcement on illicit drug offending at outdoor music festivals', International Journal of Drug Policy, 41, pp. 91 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.12.018

Belackova V; Ritter A; Shanahan M; Hughes CE, 2017, 'Assessing the concordance between illicit drug laws on the books and drug law enforcement: Comparison of three states on the continuum from “decriminalised” to “punitive”', International Journal of Drug Policy, 41, pp. 148 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.12.013

Chalmers J; Lancaster K; Hughes C, 2016, 'The stigmatisation of ‘ice’ and under-reporting of meth/amphetamine use in general population surveys: A case study from Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 36, pp. 15 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.06.001

Stevens A; Hughes C; Andro A, 2016, 'Dépénalisation et santé publique : politiques des drogues et toxicomanies au Portugal', Mouvements, n° 86, pp. 22 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/mouv.086.0022

Hughes C; Chalmers J; Bright DA; McFadden M, 2016, 'Poly-drug trafficking: Estimating the scale, trends and harms at the Australian border.', International Journal of Drug Policy., 31, pp. 80 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.01.005

Dietze PM; Quinn B; Hughes C, 2016, 'Estimating the number of regular and dependent methamphetamine users in Australia, 2002e2014', Medical Journal of Australia, 205, pp. 425 - 426, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/MJA16.00795

Lancaster K; Ritter A; Hughes C; Hoppe R, 2016, 'A critical examination of the introduction of drug detection dogs for policing of illicit drugs in New South Wales, Australia using Kingdon’s ‘multiple streams’ heuristic', Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/174426416X14683497019265

Hughes C, 2016, 'Drug mules: Women in the international cocaine trade', Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 23, pp. 496 - 497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2016.1178870

McSweeney T; Hughes CE; Ritter A, 2015, 'Tackling 'drug-related' crime: Are there merits in diverting drug-misusing defendants to treatment? Findings from an Australian case study', Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865814555773

Hughes CE; Cowdery N; Ritter A, 2015, 'Deemed Supply in Australian Drug Trafficking Laws: A Justifiable Legal Provision?', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 27, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2015.12036028

Hughes CE; Ritter A; Cowdery N; Sindicich N, 2014, ''Trafficking' or 'personal use': Do people who regularly inject drugs understand Australian drug trafficking laws?', Drug and Alcohol Review, 33, pp. 658 - 666, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12167

Hughes C; Ritter A; Cowdery N; Phillips B, 2014, 'Australian threshold quantities for 'drug trafficking': Are they placing drug users at risk of unjustified sanction?', Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.52922/ti193214

Hughes CE; Ritter A; Cowdery N, 2014, 'Legislating thresholds for drug trafficking: A policy development case study from New South Wales, Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 25, pp. 992 - 1000, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.03.002

Hughes C, 2013, 'Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy', DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, 32, pp. 336 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12007

Lancaster K; Hughes CE, 2013, 'Buzzed, broke, but not busted: How young Australians perceive the consequences of using illicit drugs', Youth Studies Australia, 32, pp. 19 - 28, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=174127672422755;res=IELHSS

Hughes CE; Ritter A; Mabbitt N, 2013, 'Drug policy coordination: Identifying and assessing dimensions of coordination', International Journal of Drug Policy, 24, pp. 244 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.08.004

Hughes CE, 2013, 'Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy: [book review]', Drug and Alcohol Review, 32, pp. 336 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12007/full

Chalmers J; Matthews-Simmons F; Hughes CE, 2013, 'The recent expansion in the Australian cocaine market: who are the new users and what are the harms?', Current Drug Abuse Reviews, 6, pp. 98 - 111, http://benthamscience.com/journal/contents.php?journalID=cdar&issueID=121314

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