Heidi Grundetjern
Biographic Data
| ID | 5237610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Grundetjern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Grundetjern |
| SIGNATURE | GRUNDETJERN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0991-9956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“I Will be a King There”
Understanding prolonged violent criminality necessitates consideration of a person’s cultivated life story, as well as motivations that may not be consciously accessible or explicitly articulated. Crucially, both are shaped within specific sociocultural contexts that impose constraints and provide resources for identity construction. We analyze the life story of “Abdullah,” a former child soldier of the Bosnian war (1992–1995) and a chronic viole…
Toward a Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Criminology
Feminist criminological scholarship on illegal substances has struggled to explain why some women who use drugs continue to participate in markets that confront them with overwhelming harms, high risk of sexual abuse, violence, and intense gendered stigma. Utilizing a case study drawn from a sample of incarcerated women who used methamphetamine in Missouri, we highlight the role of gendered identifications and emotional dependencies in the proces…
We're basically just naked therapists”
The criminalization of sex work continues to stigmatize people who sell sex. Nevertheless, people who sell sex are not a monolith. In this study, we draw from semistructured interviews with 50 active sex workers, most of whom were white and from middle‐class backgrounds, to show how they experienced empowerment in their work. We use Zimmerman’s concept of psychological empowerment to unpack how empowerment was both a process and an outcome for th…
The Role of Sex and Compulsory Heterosexuality Within the Rural Methamphetamine Market
Studies of the connection between methamphetamine use and sex have tended to focus on gay men or men who have sex with men. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with 40 cisgender heterosexual women who used methamphetamine in rural Missouri, we investigate the multiple ways in which sex played into their market navigations. Our findings reveal the nuances of sexual agency within patriarchal structural constraints. We use and expand upon a quee…
A Decade of Change in the Gendered Organizational Structure of Methamphetamine Markets in the American Midwest
While much research has documented the gendered organization of crime markets, the variability of gender-segmentation across crime has received limited attention. Analysing interview data from a study involving two cohorts of incarcerated women who used methamphetamine in rural Missouri, USA, 40 in 2009 and 40 in 2019, this study investigates the organizational properties of markets following a shift from local methamphetamine production to impor…
Nostalgia and rumors in the rural methamphetamine market
Negotiating Motherhood
This study examines negotiations of motherhood among women in the illegal hard drug economy in Norway. Based on interviews with mothers who are users and dealers, this study analyzes four predominant maternal identities: grieving mothers, detached mothers, motherly dealers, and working mothers. Particularly relevant factors explaining variations in maternal identities include the timing of pregnancy, time spent with children, control over drug us…
It’s Not Just the Drugs that are Difficult to Quit’
Research comparing crime desisters with persistent offenders has tended to find persisters to be a marginalized group who, for personal, interactional and/or structural reasons, are unable to break free from crime. On the basis of in-depth interviews with a group of empowered women drug dealers in Norway, this article suggests that the processes of psychological empowerment emerging within some individuals’ criminal success are an under-investiga…
Women's Gender Performances and Cultural Heterogeneity in the Illegal Drug Economy
Based on interviews with 32 female drug dealers in Norway, this study investigates different gender performances among women situated in the illegal hard drug economy—a context with strong gendered “rules of the game.” Using grounded theory methods, I have identified four predominant patterns in which women enact their gendered identities being part of the drug economy: performing emphasized femininity in the context of marginalization; performin…
Women on ice
Women's Gender Performances and Cultural Heterogeneity in the Illegal Drug Economy
Based on interviews with 32 female drug dealers in Norway, this study investigates different gender performances among women situated in the illegal hard drug economy—a context with strong gendered “rules of the game.” Using grounded theory methods, I have identified four predominant patterns in which women enact their gendered identities being part of the drug economy: performing emphasized femininity in the context of marginalization; performin…
Negotiating Motherhood
This study examines negotiations of motherhood among women in the illegal hard drug economy in Norway. Based on interviews with mothers who are users and dealers, this study analyzes four predominant maternal identities: grieving mothers, detached mothers, motherly dealers, and working mothers. Particularly relevant factors explaining variations in maternal identities include the timing of pregnancy, time spent with children, control over drug us…
Toward a Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Criminology
Feminist criminological scholarship on illegal substances has struggled to explain why some women who use drugs continue to participate in markets that confront them with overwhelming harms, high risk of sexual abuse, violence, and intense gendered stigma. Utilizing a case study drawn from a sample of incarcerated women who used methamphetamine in Missouri, we highlight the role of gendered identifications and emotional dependencies in the proces…
A Decade of Change in the Gendered Organizational Structure of Methamphetamine Markets in the American Midwest
While much research has documented the gendered organization of crime markets, the variability of gender-segmentation across crime has received limited attention. Analysing interview data from a study involving two cohorts of incarcerated women who used methamphetamine in rural Missouri, USA, 40 in 2009 and 40 in 2019, this study investigates the organizational properties of markets following a shift from local methamphetamine production to impor…
It’s Not Just the Drugs that are Difficult to Quit’
Research comparing crime desisters with persistent offenders has tended to find persisters to be a marginalized group who, for personal, interactional and/or structural reasons, are unable to break free from crime. On the basis of in-depth interviews with a group of empowered women drug dealers in Norway, this article suggests that the processes of psychological empowerment emerging within some individuals’ criminal success are an under-investiga…
Nostalgia and rumors in the rural methamphetamine market
Women on ice
Women's Gender Performances and Cultural Heterogeneity in the Illegal Drug Economy
Based on interviews with 32 female drug dealers in Norway, this study investigates different gender performances among women situated in the illegal hard drug economy—a context with strong gendered “rules of the game.” Using grounded theory methods, I have identified four predominant patterns in which women enact their gendered identities being part of the drug economy: performing emphasized femininity in the context of marginalization; performin…
Negotiating Motherhood
This study examines negotiations of motherhood among women in the illegal hard drug economy in Norway. Based on interviews with mothers who are users and dealers, this study analyzes four predominant maternal identities: grieving mothers, detached mothers, motherly dealers, and working mothers. Particularly relevant factors explaining variations in maternal identities include the timing of pregnancy, time spent with children, control over drug us…
It’s Not Just the Drugs that are Difficult to Quit’
Research comparing crime desisters with persistent offenders has tended to find persisters to be a marginalized group who, for personal, interactional and/or structural reasons, are unable to break free from crime. On the basis of in-depth interviews with a group of empowered women drug dealers in Norway, this article suggests that the processes of psychological empowerment emerging within some individuals’ criminal success are an under-investiga…
Nostalgia and rumors in the rural methamphetamine market
A Decade of Change in the Gendered Organizational Structure of Methamphetamine Markets in the American Midwest
While much research has documented the gendered organization of crime markets, the variability of gender-segmentation across crime has received limited attention. Analysing interview data from a study involving two cohorts of incarcerated women who used methamphetamine in rural Missouri, USA, 40 in 2009 and 40 in 2019, this study investigates the organizational properties of markets following a shift from local methamphetamine production to impor…
The Role of Sex and Compulsory Heterosexuality Within the Rural Methamphetamine Market
Studies of the connection between methamphetamine use and sex have tended to focus on gay men or men who have sex with men. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with 40 cisgender heterosexual women who used methamphetamine in rural Missouri, we investigate the multiple ways in which sex played into their market navigations. Our findings reveal the nuances of sexual agency within patriarchal structural constraints. We use and expand upon a quee…
Toward a Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Criminology
Feminist criminological scholarship on illegal substances has struggled to explain why some women who use drugs continue to participate in markets that confront them with overwhelming harms, high risk of sexual abuse, violence, and intense gendered stigma. Utilizing a case study drawn from a sample of incarcerated women who used methamphetamine in Missouri, we highlight the role of gendered identifications and emotional dependencies in the proces…
We're basically just naked therapists”
The criminalization of sex work continues to stigmatize people who sell sex. Nevertheless, people who sell sex are not a monolith. In this study, we draw from semistructured interviews with 50 active sex workers, most of whom were white and from middle‐class backgrounds, to show how they experienced empowerment in their work. We use Zimmerman’s concept of psychological empowerment to unpack how empowerment was both a process and an outcome for th…
“I Will be a King There”
Understanding prolonged violent criminality necessitates consideration of a person’s cultivated life story, as well as motivations that may not be consciously accessible or explicitly articulated. Crucially, both are shaped within specific sociocultural contexts that impose constraints and provide resources for identity construction. We analyze the life story of “Abdullah,” a former child soldier of the Bosnian war (1992–1995) and a chronic viole…
Psychology (8 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economics (3 works)