Professor Charlie Lloyd
Professor of Criminal Justice and Social Policy Co-Director of the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre

Profile

Biography

Charlie has a background in criminology, undertaking research at the University of Cambridge and then the Home Office, focusing on prisons, probation and drugs. He then moved to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, where he managed research programmes on young people, drugs and alcohol. In 2010 he moved to the Department of Health Sciences in the University of York, undertaking research and teaching on stigmatisation, drugs and alcohol. He joined the Social Policy and Social Work Department in 2017, to teach on criminal justice and substance use, and undertook research on drug users in prison and police responses to drug use. As part of the School for Business and Society, Charlie is now Co-Director of the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre – a major, five year ESRC investment in research into policing and vulnerability - https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/

Areas of expertise

Vulnerability and policing
Criminal Justice responses to drug use: prisons, probation and police
Drug policy
Stigmatisation and recovery of people who use drugs
Drug users out of treatment

Research

Overview

Research interests:

• Drug use in prison and on release, including recovery and rehabilitation
• Police responses to substance users
• Class A drug users out of contact with drug treatment services
• Stigmatisation of people who use drugs
• Drug Consumption Rooms
• Recovery from dependent substance use
• Substance users under the supervision of the NPS

Projects

• ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre - https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/
• Unmet Treatment Need – NIHR-funded study of treatment barriers for out-of-treatment opiate
  and crack users, and dependent drinkers - https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/research/spsw/substance-misuse-treatment/

Supervision

PhD supervision - Illicit drugs and criminal justice research including:

• Prison, probation and police responses to drug use and drug users
• Stigmatisation of people who use drugs
• Recovery from dependent drug use
• Drug consumption rooms

Publications

Selected publications

• Lloyd, C., Page, G., McKeganey, N. and Russell, C. (2019). Capital Depreciation: the lack of recovery capital and post-release support for prisoners leaving the Drug Recovery Wings in England and Wales. International Journal of Drug Policy, 70, p.107-116.

• Grace, S., Lloyd, C. and Perry, A. (2020). The spice trail: transitions in synthetic cannabis receptor agonists (SCRAs) use in English prisons and on release. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 27 (4), p. 271-281.

• Grace, S., Lloyd, C. and Page, G. (2022). ‘What discretion do you need?’ Factors influencing police decision-making in possession of cannabis offences. Criminology and Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221142478
  
  
• Lloyd, C. (2022). Chapter 2. More harm than good: A Review of the English-language Literature on the Policing of Drug Possession. In Bacon, M. and Spicer, J. (Eds): Ending the Stalemate: Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction. Abingdon:Routledge.

Full publications list

Commentary and Reports

• Final report of the Evaluation of the Drug Recovery Wing Pilots

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Policing
• Prisons
• Drug use and drug policy

External activities

Overview

Memberships

Editorial duties

• Editorial Board of Drugs: education, prevention and policy
• Editorial Board of The International Journal of Drug Policy

Invited talks and conferences

• Lloyd, C., Stover, H., Zurhold, H. and Hunt, N. (2013). Similar Problems, Divergent Responses: A Comparative Analysis of Drug Consumption Room Policies in the UK and Germany. International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, Bogota.
• Lloyd, C. (2015). Researching drug interventions in and beyond prisons: DRWs and CRPs. BELSPO International Seminar, University of Ghent.
• Lloyd, C. (2017). Reflections on the PROSPER and DRW evaluation results. Brussels: PROSPER Colloquium.
• Lloyd, C. (2018). Stigmatisation of People who Use Drugs. Dublin: launch of the Stop the Stigma campaign.
• Lloyd, C. (2018). Faltering Recovery: the British Experiment with Drug Recovery Wings. Vancouver: International Society of Drug Policy Annual Conference.

Media coverage

Performances

Business engagement