RT Article
T1 Pathways to Drug Dealing in the Middle and Upper Classes: early Marginalization, Relative Disadvantage and Countercultural Opposition
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 63
IS 4
SP 889
OP 905
A1 Berger, Eirik Jerven
A2 Pedersen, Willy 1952-
A2 Sandberg, Sveinung 1977-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1868997790
AB Drug dealing is widespread in all sectors of society but is still studied predominantly in disadvantaged urban areas. We identify three main pathways to drug dealing based on qualitative interviews with middle- and upper-class individuals in Oslo, Norway. First, problems in the family and school and a lack of belonging in affluent neighbourhoods intersected with drug use and eventually led to recruitment into the illegal drug economy. Second, criminal entrepreneurship developed among relatively disadvantaged people who dealt drugs in an affluent low-risk context. Third, dealing emerged from involvement in drug liberalization and medical marihuana countercultures. The first pathway is similar to trajectories in disadvantaged urban areas, while the others reveal the importance of studying drug dealing in the upper layers of society.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 903-905
K1 Drug dealing
K1 dealer
K1 upper-middle class
K1 criminal pathway
K1 Cannabis
K1 Subculture
DO 10.1093/bjc/azac063