Cuckooing

Cuckooing is a form of crime, termed by the police, in which drug dealers take over the home of a vulnerable person in order to use it as a base for county lines drug trafficking. The crime is named for the cuckoo's practice of taking over other birds' nests for its young.[1][2]

As of the 2010s, cuckooing was becoming an increasingly common problem in the South of England.[3][4][5][6]

Origin

The term 'cuckooing’, with reference to an undesirable trespasser whose purpose is to use the victim's home as a base for county lines drug trafficking in the UK, comes from the cuckoo's practice of taking over other birds' nests for its young. In this context, the term was mentioned in 1992 by Michael E. Buerger, was subsequently overlooked and then regained wider use from 2010.[1][3][7]

References
  1. McLean, Robert; Robinson, Grace; Densley, James A. (2019). County Lines: Criminal Networks and Evolving Drug Markets in Britain. Springer Nature. pp. 32–35. ISBN 978-3-030-33361-4.
  2. Windle, James; Moyle, Leah; Coomber, Ross (6 February 2020). "'Vulnerable' Kids Going Country: Children and Young People's Involvement in County Lines Drug Dealing". Youth Justice. 20 (1–2): 64–78. doi:10.1177/1473225420902840. ISSN 1473-2254. S2CID 212422315.
  3. Spicer, Jack; Moyle, Leah; Coomber, Ross (21 June 2019). "The variable and evolving nature of 'cuckooing' as a form of criminal exploitation in street level drug markets". Trends in Organized Crime. doi:10.1007/s12117-019-09368-5. ISSN 1936-4830.
  4. Race, Michael (25 October 2017). "New-look police team hits the streets in Headington, Marston and Barton". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  5. Doward, Jamie (2 October 2010). "Vulnerable tenants targeted by drug gang 'cuckoos'". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2017-11-05.
  6. "Drug dealers target vulnerable in south". BBC News. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  7. Buerger, Michael E. (1 January 1992). "Defensive Strategies of the Street-Level Drug Trade" (PDF). Journal of Crime and Justice. 15 (2): 31–51. doi:10.1080/0735648X.1992.9721463. ISSN 0735-648X.

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