Climbing the Ladder: From Street Gangs to Adult Organised Crime Groups

In recent times, newspaper reports have indicated the dawn of a new entrepreneurial transition for the English street gang as the demand for recreational drugs intensifies. A new term to describe the expansion of illegal drug supply beyond urban centres to provincial regions (Ashton and Bussu in Journal of Criminal Psychology 10(4), 2020; Coomber and Moyle, British Journal of Criminology 58:1323–1342, 2018) has now emerged and been added to gang discourse … ‘county Lines’.