Drug Mules [electronic resource] : Women in the International Cocaine Trade /
Fleetwood, J.author.
Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2015 Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretical insights from gender theory and transnational criminology, Fleetwood argues that women's participation in the drugs trade cannot be adequately understood through the lenses of either victimization or agency.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements ; 1 Introduction: Cartels and Cocaine Queens; 2 Imagining Drug Trafficking: Mafias, Markets, Mules; 3 What Do Women Talk about When They Talk about Trafficking?; 4 Who Are the 'Traffickers'?; 5 For Money and Love: Women's Narratives about Becoming Mules; 6 Beginning Mule-work; 7 Mule-work and Gender; 8 Backing Out; Conclusion: Women's Offending in Global Context; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2015 Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretical insights from gender theory and transnational criminology, Fleetwood argues that women's participation in the drugs trade cannot be adequately understood through the lenses of either victimization or agency.
Sociology.
Criminology.
Organized crime.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Globalization.
Gender Studies.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Organized Crime.
Crime and Society.
Sociology, general.
Globalization.