RT Article
T1 The Seduction of a Drug Mule: Drug Trafficking Among Female Offenders
JF Journal of drug issues
VO 54
IS 1
SP 3
OP 21
A1 Sumter, Melvina T.
A2 Wood, Frank
A2 Whitaker, Ingrid
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1871896622
AB This research examined how women are recruited into drug trafficking. Previous findings indicate that women are recruited into drug trafficking due to economic hardship. Data for this research study is taken from in-depth interviews with 13 female offenders incarcerated at the Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service. The findings in this study suggest women become involved in drug smuggling for reasons that are far more complex than simple financial need. Specifically, the majority of women fell prey, under the guise of friendship, to an unscrupulous individual, interested in furthering his or her cause. Under systems of patriarchy and capitalism, the findings from this study suggests that women became involved in drug trafficking because of how they are socialized.
K1 Victimization
K1 Socialization
K1 Female Inmates
K1 economic marginality
K1 Drug trafficking
DO 10.1177/00220426221145020