The new mothers' little helpers
Medicalization, Victimization, and Criminalization of Motherhood via Prescription Drugs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2153172 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Smirnova (0009-0009-6148-6124, University of Missouri–Kansas City, corresponding author), Jennifer Gatewood Owens (University of Missouri–Kansas City) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 957-970 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.2018.1449433 |
| OpenAlex | W2790710854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 44 |
In order to understand the relationship between nonmedical prescription drug use, gender, and crime, interviews were conducted with 40 incarcerated women who self-identified as nonmedical Rx users. Of the women we interviewed, 70% were prescribed Rx drugs from their doctors to aid in recovery from cesarean section childbirth deliveries, treat postpartum depression, or for mental or physical health problems associated with childhood abuse and victimization. These women subsequently discovered that these pills also helped them cope with the stresses of caretaking and keeping the family together, particularly when experiencing intimate partner violence and prolonged poverty. Women were motivated to use Rx drugs in order to be a “good” mother, as defined by medical and cultural discourse; however, despite positive intentions, prolonged nonmedical use often hindered the realization of these ideals and ultimately resulted in their criminalization, incarceration, and separation from their children
Childbirth · Criminalization · Criminology · Imprisonment · Medical prescription · Medicalization · Mental health · Pill · Poverty · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Vulnerability (computing · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Medicine · Nursing · Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects · Psychology
Basics of qualitative research
Mothering from the Inside
The cultural contradictions of motherhood
Promises I Can Keep
Doing Time Together
Childhood Abuse, Neglect, and Household Dysfunction and the Risk of Illicit Drug Use
Methamphetamine use behaviors and gender differences
Cumulative environmental risk in substance abusing women
Race and trust in the health care system
Prevalence and Severity of Lifetime Physical and Sexual Victimization Among Incarcerated Women
Deviance and medicalization
Good Enough Mothering?
The War on Drugs as a War against Black Women
White Women, Race Matters
Drug-using parents
Passionate men, emotional women
Mother's Little Helper’
Social Distance in the Clinical Encounter
Precocious Role Entry as a Mediating Factor in Women's Methamphetamine Use
Biomedicalization
Discipline and Punish
Queering Reproduction
The politics of women's bodies
I Take Care of My Kids
Embodied Motherhood
Getting Gut-Level
Getting your Body Back
Gender in the Prozac Nation
Giving Birth Like A Girl
Medicalization and Social Control
Reproduction
The pharmaceuticalisation of society? A framework for analysis
Migrating identities
I am just a 'maae' (mother)
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |