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Is the EU Drugs Strategy Helping to Curb the Harm Caused by Drugs?
Jan 9, 2018
Emma Disley
Research Group Director, Home Affairs and Social Policy, RAND Europe
Cambridge Office
Education
Ph.D. and M.Sc. in criminology, University of Oxford; L.L.B. in law, University of Manchester
Media Resources
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Emma Disley is director of the Home Affairs and Social Policy research group at RAND Europe, which conducts research in the fields of education, employment and crime and justice. Disley has over 13 years’ experience of leading research and analysis to support decisionmaking in UK government, European institutions, charities and foundations. She has a Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Oxford and continues to lead research projects across policy domains including drugs and illicit markets, international organised crime and European law enforcement cooperation.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Research on How Police Use Out of Court Disposals to Support Adults with Health Vulnerabilities
- Evaluation of Alternative Provision Specialist Task Force Educational Provision
- National Evaluation of Liaison and Diversion Services in England
- Evaluation of the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL)
- Assessing the Economic Value of Illicit Markets in the EU
Selected Publications
Shann Hulme, Emma Disley and Emma Louise Blondes, Mapping the risk of serious and organised crime infiltrating legitimate businesses, European Commission, 2021
Mike Maguire, Emma Disley, Mark Liddle, and Rosie Meek with Nina Burrowes, Developing a toolkit to measure intermediate outcomes to reduce reoffending, UK Ministry of Justice, 2019
Lucy Strang and Emma Disley, Violent and antisocial behaviour at football events and strategies to prevent and respond to these behaviours, RAND Corporation (RR-2904-QAT), 2018
Balbirnie, E., Davies, M., Disley, E., Gonzalez Monsalve, E., Hartka, S., Hoorens, S., Kruithof, K., Sacher, K., Taylor. J., Mid-Term Assessment of the EU Drugs Strategy 2013–2020 and Final Evaluation of the Action Plan on Drugs 2013–2016, European Commission, 2017
Andrea Di Nicola et al., Study on paving the way for future policy initiatives in the field of fight against organised crime: the effectiveness of specific criminal law measures targeting organised crime, European Commission, 2016
Kruithof, K., Davies, M. Disley, E., Strang, L., Ito, K, Study on Alternatives to Coercive Sanctions as Response to Drug Law Offences and Drug-Related Crimes, European Commission (RR-1411-EC), 2016
Hafner, M., Taylor, J., Disley, E., Thebes, S., and Barberi, S. and Stepanek, M, The Cost of Non-Europe in the area of Organised Crime and Corruption Annex II – Corruption, European Parliament Research Service (RR-1489-EPIM), 2016
