Jennifer Fleetwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 251483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Fleetwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleetwood |
| SIGNATURE | FLEETWOOD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6348-4810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Information security for criminological ethnographers
Information security refers to ‘the practice of defending information from unauthorised access’. Information security practices include everyday activities such as protecting your bank details, or keeping your workplace logins secure. Despite increasingly restrictive approaches to research ethics, academia continues to lag behind journalism when it comes to best practice with regards to information security. This article discusses information sec…
Women's Involvement in the Drug Trade: Revisiting the Emancipation Thesis in Global Perspective
This article undertakes a global review of women’s involvement in cultivation, processing, transporting and selling drugs. It is underpinned by twin theoretical concerns. First, we recap and critique the emancipation thesis, especially from a global perspective. Secondly, we examine how diverse global contexts shape women’s involvement and the roles they occupy in these economies, challenging the notion that women’s involvement in the drug trade …
In Search of Respectability: Narrative Practice in a Women’s Prison in Quito, Ecuador
Gendering research on online illegal drug markets
This paper reviews and critiques research on online illegal drug markets, arguing that existing conceptualizations and methodological approaches have resulted in a very limited discussion of women and questions of gender. The first part lays out the stereotypes and unarticulated assumptions that enable questions about women and gender to be side-lined, as follows: (i) that online anonymity rules out knowing about gender in online drug markets; (i…
Everyday self-defence: Hollaback narratives, habitus and resisting street harassment
Street harassment is recognized as an 'everyday' form of violence against women. Influenced by contemporary sociologies of everyday life, this article examines women responses to street harassment, drawing on over 500 first person narratives submitted to the website of Hollaback London. The narrative structure highlights women's actions, which (like street harassment) have generally been considered inconsequential. Quantitative content analysis r…
Law for ethnographers
Despite a long history of ethnographic research on crime, ethnographers have shied away from examining the law as it relates to being present at, witnessing and recording illegal activity. However, knowledge of the law is an essential tool for researchers and the future of ethnographic research on crime. This article reviews the main relevant legal statutes in England and Wales and considers their relevance for contemporary ethnographic research.…
Ethnographic research on crime and control: Editors' introduction
Jennifer Fleetwood and Gary R. Potter introduce a Special Section on ethnographic research on crime and control
Street talk and Bourdieusian criminology: Bringing narrative to field theory
The work of Bourdieu has increasingly gained interest in criminology. His theoretical framework is rich and arguably the most sophisticated approach to social inequality and difference in sociology. It has however, been criticized for bias towards the structural aspects of social life, and for leaving little space for the constitutive, and creative role of language. We argue for the inclusion of narrative for understanding street fields. Based on…
Narrative habitus: Thinking through structure/agency in the narratives of offenders
Starting from the premise that experience is narratively constituted and actions are oriented through the self as the protagonist in an evolving story, narrative criminology investigates how narratives motivate and sustain offending. Reviewing narrative criminological research, this article contends that narrative criminology tends towards a problematic dualism of structure and agency, locating agency in individual narrative creativity and constr…
Sex, Love and Abuse: Discourses on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, By Sharon Hayes (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014, 154pp. £58)
The main argument in Sex, Love and Abuse is that media ‘distort our perceptions and expectations of intimate relationships, creating cultural narratives around the inevitability of, and transformative power of, abuse’ (p. 38). Hayes’ approach is eclectic, philosophical and imaginative. Overall, this is an unconventional monograph offering a fresh look at the relationship between culture, love and abuse. The first section of the book sets up Hayes…
Mafias, Markets, Mules: Gender Stereotypes in Discourses About Drug Trafficking
Popular and political discourses about drug trafficking are premised on a gender binary based on sexist stereotypes. Simply put, popular and political discourses about drug trafficking tend to describe men as the brains and women as mere bodies. Academic research on drug mules and drug trafficking tends to rely on, rather than problematise, this gender binary, limiting contemporary enquiry and knowledge about drug trafficking. Furthermore, this g…
A Narrative Approach to Women’s Lawbreaking
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 e…
Drug Mules: Women in the International Cocaine Trade
This book explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretical insights from gender theory and transnational criminology, Fleetwood argues that women's participation in the drugs trade cannot be adequately understood through the lenses of either victimization or agency
Drug Mules
Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2015 Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretica
A feminist, narrative analysis of drinking stories
Drogas, cárcel y género en Ecuador: La experiencia de mujeres "mulas" de Andreina Torres
de Drogas, cárcel y género en Ecuador: La experiencia de mujeres “mulas”
Dirty Dancing: An Ethnography of Lapdancing. By Rachela Colosi (Abingdon: Willan/Routledge, 2010, 196pp. 27.99 pb, 85.00 hb)
Last term, I asked a group of masters’ criminology students if they read criminology (or sociology) for fun. I received a blank look in return. ‘You know .... Not for an essay, for ... enjoyment?’ I said, looking round, hopefully. Their expressions indicated that they understood the idea of what I was saying but were nonetheless puzzled by it. If only I’d had Colosi’s book with me. With a title like Dirty Dancing, what student wouldn’t be tempted…
Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture. By Maggie O'Neill and Lizzie Seal (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 187pp. 55.00 hb)
Journal Article Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture. By Maggie O’Neill and Lizzie Seal (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 187pp. £55.00 hb) Get access Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Devianceand Culture. By Maggie O’Neilland Lizzie Seal (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 187pp. £55.00 hb) Jennifer Fleetwood Jennifer Fleetwood University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Five Kilos: Penalties and Practice in the International Cocaine Trade
Current and proposed sentence guidelines for drug-trafficking offences in the United Kingdom are underpinned by the neo-liberal 'commonsense' assumption that greater quantities will yield a greater profit, which deserves greater punishment. At present, this is achieved through the use of weight to determine the maximum sentence available (five kilos for Class A drugs). Drawing on ethnographic research with drug traffickers imprisoned in Ecuador, …
Narrative habitus: Thinking through structure/agency in the narratives of offenders
Starting from the premise that experience is narratively constituted and actions are oriented through the self as the protagonist in an evolving story, narrative criminology investigates how narratives motivate and sustain offending. Reviewing narrative criminological research, this article contends that narrative criminology tends towards a problematic dualism of structure and agency, locating agency in individual narrative creativity and constr…
Street talk and Bourdieusian criminology: Bringing narrative to field theory
The work of Bourdieu has increasingly gained interest in criminology. His theoretical framework is rich and arguably the most sophisticated approach to social inequality and difference in sociology. It has however, been criticized for bias towards the structural aspects of social life, and for leaving little space for the constitutive, and creative role of language. We argue for the inclusion of narrative for understanding street fields. Based on…
Everyday self-defence: Hollaback narratives, habitus and resisting street harassment
Street harassment is recognized as an 'everyday' form of violence against women. Influenced by contemporary sociologies of everyday life, this article examines women responses to street harassment, drawing on over 500 first person narratives submitted to the website of Hollaback London. The narrative structure highlights women's actions, which (like street harassment) have generally been considered inconsequential. Quantitative content analysis r…
A Narrative Approach to Women’s Lawbreaking
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 e…
Women's Involvement in the Drug Trade: Revisiting the Emancipation Thesis in Global Perspective
This article undertakes a global review of women’s involvement in cultivation, processing, transporting and selling drugs. It is underpinned by twin theoretical concerns. First, we recap and critique the emancipation thesis, especially from a global perspective. Secondly, we examine how diverse global contexts shape women’s involvement and the roles they occupy in these economies, challenging the notion that women’s involvement in the drug trade …
Law for ethnographers
Despite a long history of ethnographic research on crime, ethnographers have shied away from examining the law as it relates to being present at, witnessing and recording illegal activity. However, knowledge of the law is an essential tool for researchers and the future of ethnographic research on crime. This article reviews the main relevant legal statutes in England and Wales and considers their relevance for contemporary ethnographic research.…
Ethnographic research on crime and control: Editors' introduction
Jennifer Fleetwood and Gary R. Potter introduce a Special Section on ethnographic research on crime and control
Information security for criminological ethnographers
Information security refers to ‘the practice of defending information from unauthorised access’. Information security practices include everyday activities such as protecting your bank details, or keeping your workplace logins secure. Despite increasingly restrictive approaches to research ethics, academia continues to lag behind journalism when it comes to best practice with regards to information security. This article discusses information sec…
Mafias, Markets, Mules: Gender Stereotypes in Discourses About Drug Trafficking
Popular and political discourses about drug trafficking are premised on a gender binary based on sexist stereotypes. Simply put, popular and political discourses about drug trafficking tend to describe men as the brains and women as mere bodies. Academic research on drug mules and drug trafficking tends to rely on, rather than problematise, this gender binary, limiting contemporary enquiry and knowledge about drug trafficking. Furthermore, this g…
Five Kilos: Penalties and Practice in the International Cocaine Trade
Current and proposed sentence guidelines for drug-trafficking offences in the United Kingdom are underpinned by the neo-liberal 'commonsense' assumption that greater quantities will yield a greater profit, which deserves greater punishment. At present, this is achieved through the use of weight to determine the maximum sentence available (five kilos for Class A drugs). Drawing on ethnographic research with drug traffickers imprisoned in Ecuador, …
Five Kilos: Penalties and Practice in the International Cocaine Trade
Current and proposed sentence guidelines for drug-trafficking offences in the United Kingdom are underpinned by the neo-liberal 'commonsense' assumption that greater quantities will yield a greater profit, which deserves greater punishment. At present, this is achieved through the use of weight to determine the maximum sentence available (five kilos for Class A drugs). Drawing on ethnographic research with drug traffickers imprisoned in Ecuador, …
Dirty Dancing: An Ethnography of Lapdancing. By Rachela Colosi (Abingdon: Willan/Routledge, 2010, 196pp. 27.99 pb, 85.00 hb)
Last term, I asked a group of masters’ criminology students if they read criminology (or sociology) for fun. I received a blank look in return. ‘You know .... Not for an essay, for ... enjoyment?’ I said, looking round, hopefully. Their expressions indicated that they understood the idea of what I was saying but were nonetheless puzzled by it. If only I’d had Colosi’s book with me. With a title like Dirty Dancing, what student wouldn’t be tempted…
Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture. By Maggie O'Neill and Lizzie Seal (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 187pp. 55.00 hb)
Journal Article Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture. By Maggie O’Neill and Lizzie Seal (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 187pp. £55.00 hb) Get access Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Devianceand Culture. By Maggie O’Neilland Lizzie Seal (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 187pp. £55.00 hb) Jennifer Fleetwood Jennifer Fleetwood University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Drug Mules: Women in the International Cocaine Trade
This book explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretical insights from gender theory and transnational criminology, Fleetwood argues that women's participation in the drugs trade cannot be adequately understood through the lenses of either victimization or agency
Drug Mules
Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2015 Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretica
A feminist, narrative analysis of drinking stories
Drogas, cárcel y género en Ecuador: La experiencia de mujeres "mulas" de Andreina Torres
de Drogas, cárcel y género en Ecuador: La experiencia de mujeres “mulas”
Mafias, Markets, Mules: Gender Stereotypes in Discourses About Drug Trafficking
Popular and political discourses about drug trafficking are premised on a gender binary based on sexist stereotypes. Simply put, popular and political discourses about drug trafficking tend to describe men as the brains and women as mere bodies. Academic research on drug mules and drug trafficking tends to rely on, rather than problematise, this gender binary, limiting contemporary enquiry and knowledge about drug trafficking. Furthermore, this g…
A Narrative Approach to Women’s Lawbreaking
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 e…
Street talk and Bourdieusian criminology: Bringing narrative to field theory
The work of Bourdieu has increasingly gained interest in criminology. His theoretical framework is rich and arguably the most sophisticated approach to social inequality and difference in sociology. It has however, been criticized for bias towards the structural aspects of social life, and for leaving little space for the constitutive, and creative role of language. We argue for the inclusion of narrative for understanding street fields. Based on…
Narrative habitus: Thinking through structure/agency in the narratives of offenders
Starting from the premise that experience is narratively constituted and actions are oriented through the self as the protagonist in an evolving story, narrative criminology investigates how narratives motivate and sustain offending. Reviewing narrative criminological research, this article contends that narrative criminology tends towards a problematic dualism of structure and agency, locating agency in individual narrative creativity and constr…
Sex, Love and Abuse: Discourses on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, By Sharon Hayes (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014, 154pp. £58)
The main argument in Sex, Love and Abuse is that media ‘distort our perceptions and expectations of intimate relationships, creating cultural narratives around the inevitability of, and transformative power of, abuse’ (p. 38). Hayes’ approach is eclectic, philosophical and imaginative. Overall, this is an unconventional monograph offering a fresh look at the relationship between culture, love and abuse. The first section of the book sets up Hayes…
Law for ethnographers
Despite a long history of ethnographic research on crime, ethnographers have shied away from examining the law as it relates to being present at, witnessing and recording illegal activity. However, knowledge of the law is an essential tool for researchers and the future of ethnographic research on crime. This article reviews the main relevant legal statutes in England and Wales and considers their relevance for contemporary ethnographic research.…
Ethnographic research on crime and control: Editors' introduction
Jennifer Fleetwood and Gary R. Potter introduce a Special Section on ethnographic research on crime and control
Everyday self-defence: Hollaback narratives, habitus and resisting street harassment
Street harassment is recognized as an 'everyday' form of violence against women. Influenced by contemporary sociologies of everyday life, this article examines women responses to street harassment, drawing on over 500 first person narratives submitted to the website of Hollaback London. The narrative structure highlights women's actions, which (like street harassment) have generally been considered inconsequential. Quantitative content analysis r…
In Search of Respectability: Narrative Practice in a Women’s Prison in Quito, Ecuador
Gendering research on online illegal drug markets
This paper reviews and critiques research on online illegal drug markets, arguing that existing conceptualizations and methodological approaches have resulted in a very limited discussion of women and questions of gender. The first part lays out the stereotypes and unarticulated assumptions that enable questions about women and gender to be side-lined, as follows: (i) that online anonymity rules out knowing about gender in online drug markets; (i…
Women's Involvement in the Drug Trade: Revisiting the Emancipation Thesis in Global Perspective
This article undertakes a global review of women’s involvement in cultivation, processing, transporting and selling drugs. It is underpinned by twin theoretical concerns. First, we recap and critique the emancipation thesis, especially from a global perspective. Secondly, we examine how diverse global contexts shape women’s involvement and the roles they occupy in these economies, challenging the notion that women’s involvement in the drug trade …
Information security for criminological ethnographers
Information security refers to ‘the practice of defending information from unauthorised access’. Information security practices include everyday activities such as protecting your bank details, or keeping your workplace logins secure. Despite increasingly restrictive approaches to research ethics, academia continues to lag behind journalism when it comes to best practice with regards to information security. This article discusses information sec…
Sociology (14 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works)