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Citation

Fleetwood J. Fem. Criminol. 2015; 10(4): 368-388.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1557085115591998

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

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.


Language: en

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