Citizens and Outlaws: The Private Lives and Public Lifestyles of Women in the Illicit Drug Economy
Citizens and Outlaws: The Private Lives and Public Lifestyles of Women in the Illicit Drug Economy
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公民与不法之徒：非法毒品经济中妇女的私生活和公共生活方式
DOI：
10.1177/002204269602600108
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发表时间：
1996
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
K. Joe
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作者：
P. Morgan;K. Joe
本文利用了美国三个社区（弗朗西斯科、圣地亚哥和檀香山）甲基苯丙胺使用者的定性研究结果。深入访谈结合调查问卷，探讨模式，背景和结果之间的种族和文化多样性的样本150中度到重度用户在每个网站。一个扎根理论的方法被用来识别和检查模式的经验，信仰和环境。这项研究最重要的发现之一是，具有丰富甲基苯丙胺经销商和/或分销商经验的女性比例出乎意料地高。在141名答复的女性吸毒者中，三分之二以上的人生活方式多样化，并在各种层面上参与非法甲基苯丙胺市场。然而，大多数人认为这一活动是一种积极的经历，使他们获得了经济独立、自尊、更强的工作能力、职业自豪感和道德。处理被视为支持他们的重要需要，以保持控制：与社会和亲密关系，与日常生活的责任，并与他们的药物使用。所有地点的女毒贩报告的主要问题包括：逮捕和监禁;暴力;对顾客缺乏信任和背叛;社会和情感上依赖毒品，以使自己感觉正常，在社会层面上没有恐惧。
This paper utilizes findings from a qualitative study of methamphetamine among users in three U.S. communities: San Francisco, San Diego, and Honolulu. In-depth interviews were combined with survey questionnaires to explore the patterns, contexts, and consequences among an ethnically and culturally diverse sample of 150 moderate to heavy users in each site. A grounded theory method was used to identify and examine patterns of experiences, beliefs, and environments. One of the most important findings emerging from this study concerns the unexpectedly high proportion of women with substantial experience as methamphetamine dealers and/or distributors. More than two-thirds of the 141 female respondent users were involved in diverse lifestyles and participated in the illicit methamphetamine market on a wide variety of levels. However, the majority considered this activity as a positive experience which provided them with economic independence, self-esteem, increased ability to function, professional pride, and ethics. Dealing was seen as supportive in their important need to maintain control: with social and intimate relationships, with daily living responsibilities, and with their drug use. The major problems reported by women dealers across all sites included: arrests and incarceration; violence; lack of trust in, and betrayal by, customers; and social and emotional dependency on the drug to feel normal and function without fear on a social level.