RT Article
T1 Dealing with fatherhood: paternal identities among men in the illegal drug economy
JF European journal of criminology
VO 18
IS 5
SP 643
OP 659
A1 Grundetjern, Heidi
A1 Copes, Heith 1970-
A1 Sandberg, Sveinung 1977-
A2 Copes, Heith 1970-
A2 Sandberg, Sveinung 1977-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1777549760
AB This study investigates paternal identities among men who are involved in the illegal drug economy in Norway. Using data from life-history interviews, we identified two paternal identities relating to the role fatherhood played in their lives and crimes: struggling fathers and absent fathers. Our analysis demonstrates the structural constraints of fatherhood for crime-involved men, which is rooted in their class positions and enhanced by being situated in hyper-masculine drug markets with little access to hegemonic masculinity. Our study offers a contribution to scholarship on marginalized fatherhood, and highlights the import of paternal identities for understanding the relationship between fatherhood and cr
K1 Crime and parenting
K1 Drug dealing
K1 Fatherhood
K1 Paternal identities
DO 10.1177/1477370819874429