posted on 2015-07-22, 16:47authored byJennifer Fleetwood
This article argues for the value of narrative criminology for feminist explanations of women’s lawbreaking. Contemporary theories note the significance of material gendered inequalities; however, narrative offers a way to include discursive aspects of gender. Drawing on recent developments in narrative criminology, this article analyzes how women may “talk themselves into” lawbreaking. Analysis draws on interviews with three women with diverse experiences in the drug trade and shows how drug trafficking was narrated as impossible, meaningful, and inevitable. A narrative approach therefore offers ways to understand how for some women, under some circumstances, lawbreaking may become meaningful.
Funding
This paper is based on interview data on two separate projects. The first ‘women in the international
cocaine trade’ was supported by an ESRC studentship (PTA-030-2004-00460). The second,
‘women in the crack cocaine trade’ was supported by a British Academy Small Grant
(SG111247)
History
Citation
Feminist Criminology July 2, 2015 1557085115591998
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE/Department of Criminology
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Published in
Feminist Criminology July 2
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US) for American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime