Vulnerability and Police Contact: Gendered Pathways to Drug Dependence

该项目将寻求形成对妇女和男子依赖途径的理解，这些经验中的具体性别差异，以及这些途径中警务经验的位置。通过调查毒品依赖的男性和女性的生活经历和轨迹，我将探讨性别如何影响这些轨迹的差异，通过检查以下内容：伤害和脆弱性的理解;警务接触的历史影响，以及个人和社会环境如何导致更严重的依赖。通过这样做，这项研究将扩大有关警务和国家对药物依赖者的干预如何使进一步形式的伤害永久化的知识。这项研究的核心将是放大参与者的声音。吸毒成瘾者往往被主流社会污名化和排斥。我热衷于参与合作生产的方法，因为我对他们改变权力动态的能力充满热情。利用深入的，生活史访谈与那些目前在药物治疗和脱离将传记讲故事的机构参与本research.I建议进行这项研究，通过女权主义废奴主义女权主义者的角度来看。在这种情况下，废除主义者的观点将重新处理毒品依赖者生命过程中的伤害、脆弱性和国家干预的概念。这将探讨针对药物依赖的刑事司法对策如何对减轻个人和社会层面的伤害产生反作用。在结束监狱状态和维持治安的背景下提出这一点，并了解它们在通过制定毒品政策和治疗吸毒成瘾者而使暴力和伤害永久化方面的关键作用，将寻求探索减轻伤害和通过再分配和整体做法更充分地支持弱势群体的方法。毒品使用和警务是相互关联的，为了解决伤害的根源，需要以这种方式处理。通过女权主义废除主义者的透镜来探讨药物依赖的性别途径中的脆弱性概念，将抵制对药物使用的刑事司法方法，同时探索性别专家创伤知情的整体护理系统，以应对与药物有关的耻辱和歧视。它将提供一个关键的透镜，不仅可以考虑个人生活经历的具体性别差异，而且可以考虑刑事司法干预的相互作用和影响。女权主义废奴主义是交叉的，不仅承认性别对人们生活经历的影响，而且种族，阶级和残疾也都对经历产生物质影响。我将包括一个交叉分析，考虑到这些社会结构。我在这项研究中设想的最突出的挑战涉及到从事研究与潜在的社会弱势成员的伦理问题。这里的主要考虑因素之一将是确保为参与该研究项目的参与者提供支持。这将是最重要的，并在进行任何初步研究之前落实到位。确保研究包括共同生产的方法是证明这项研究的目的的必要条件。

This project would seek to form an understanding of pathways into dependence for women and men, the specific gendered differences in these experiences, as well as the place of policing experiences within these pathways. Through an investigation into the life experiences and trajectories of drug dependent men and women, I will explore how gender impacts differences in these trajectories by examining the following: understandings of harm and vulnerability; the historical influence of policing contacts and how personal and social circumstances can lead to more severe dependency. In doing so, this research will expand knowledge about how policing and state intervention for those with drug dependency can perpetuate further forms of harm.Central to this research will be the amplification of participant voices. Dependent drug users are often stigmatised and ostracised from mainstream society. I am keen to engage in co-productive methodologies, as I am passionate about their capability to shift power dynamics. Utilising in-depth, life-history interviews with those both currently in drug treatment and the disengaged will give biographical story-telling agency to participants involved in this research.I propose to conduct this research through a feminist abolitionist feminist perspective. An abolitionist perspective in this instance would readdress notions of harm, vulnerability and state intervention within the life courses of drug dependent individuals. This will explore the ways in which criminal justice responses to drug dependency are counterproductive to alleviating harm on individual and societal levels. Proposing this within the context of ending the carceral state and policing, and with an understanding of their key roles in perpetuating violence and harm through the enactment of drug policy and treatment of drug dependent users, will seek to explore ways of mitigating harm and supporting vulnerable people more fully through redistributive and holistic practices.This research would highlight that the issues of gender, drug use and policing are interconnected, and that in order to address the root causes of harm, they would need to be approached in such a way. Approaching notions of vulnerability within gendered pathways to drug dependence through a feminist abolitionist lens will resist criminal justice approaches to drug use whilst exploring gender-specialist trauma informed holistic systems of care for drug-related stigma and discrimination. It would provide a critical lens to consider the specific gendered differences not only of individual life experiences, but of the interactions and implications of criminal justice intervention. Feminism abolitionism is intersectional, acknowledging not only the impact of gender on peoples lived experiences, but that race, class and disability also all have material impacts on experiences. I would include an intersectional analysis taking these social structures into account.The most salient challenge I envisage within this study relates to ethical concerns around engaging in research with potentially vulnerable members of society. One of the main considerations here will be ensuring there is support available for participants who are engaging with this research project. This will need to be of the highest importance and put into place before any primary research is conducted. Ensuring that the research includes methods of co-production is essential in justifying the purpose of this research.