Dr Simon Flacks
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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'?