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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN)

Dr Simon Flacks

Simon

Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Email: S.Flacks@sussex.ac.uk

Profile

My research addresses the regulation of drugs, and particularly the consequences for children and families. My monograph, Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood: From Protection to Punishment, was published in April 2021.

Research

Publications

In addition to my monograph (Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood: From Protection to Punishment, 2021), my most recent publications are: Substance misuse and parenting: Making drugs and gender in the Family Court; Dangerous drugs, dangerous mothers: Gender, responsibility and the problematisation of parental substance use; Law, necropolitics and the stop and search of young people; The stop and search of minors: A 'vital police tool'?

Expertise

Drugs, family justice, criminal justice, the politics of childhood, child rights, youth justice
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