Women and Drug Use

The Case for a Justice Analysis

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ID20394148
AuthorsBeth E Richie (Departments of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume17
Issue2-3
Pages137-143
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWomen & Criminal Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0897-4454 • E-ISSN: 1541-0323
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j012v17n02_10
OpenAlexW1572985296
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Extensive data link women's use of drugs and their subsequent involvement in illegal activity to their growing involvement with the criminal justice system. Although research has established causal factors and consequences for drug use among women, these factors do not take into account the fundamental social injustices that also contribute to drug use among women, including interactions with social institutions, social sigma, and punitive public policy. This paper discusses the importance of developing theoretical frameworks and measures for assessing social (in)justice that would allow for it to be operationalized, generalized, and tested for validity in order to help explain what justice is and how injustice works as a broader causal mechanism in the growing problem of women and drug use

Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Injustice · Operationalization · Political science · Punitive damages · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects · Psychology · Social Psychology

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