Article
Dealing with fatherhood: Paternal identities among men in the illegal drug economy:
European Journal of Criminology
(2019)
Abstract
This study investigates paternal identities among men who are involved in the illegal drug economy in Norway. Using data from life-history interviews, we identified two paternal identities relating to the role fatherhood played in their lives and crimes: struggling fathers and absent fathers. Our analysis demonstrates the structural constraints of fatherhood for crime-involved men, which is rooted in their class positions and enhanced by being situated in hyper-masculine drug markets with little access to hegemonic masculinity. Our study offers a contribution to scholarship on marginalized fatherhood, and highlights the import of paternal identities for understanding the relationship between fatherhood and crime over the life course.
Keywords
- Crime and parenting,
- drug dealing,
- fatherhood,
- paternal identities
Disciplines
Publication Date
September 14, 2019
DOI
10.1177/1477370819874429
Citation Information
Heidi Grundetjern, Heith Copes and Sveinung Sandberg. "Dealing with fatherhood: Paternal identities among men in the illegal drug economy:" European Journal of Criminology (2019) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/heidi-grundetjern/27/