Female Narcotics Crime: Article Analysis

The articles that will be used to support the topic of Female Drug Lords are “A Social Description of Female Narcotics Crime” by T.M. Iavchunovskaia and I.B. Stepanova, “Female Drug Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Gender, Crime, and Empowerment“ by Howard Campbell, “Women’s Gender Performances and Cultural Heterogeneity In the Illegal Drug Economy” by Heidi Grundetjern, “Black from Crack” by Spirit Quest, and lastly “The Daughters of La Nacha: Profiles of Women Traffickers” by Elaine Carey and Jose Carlos Cisnero Guzman.
Drug Cartels have been known as male dominated field but in this case, there have been many females that have been as dominant as or even more powerful than some males. Most of these cases come from Latin America and …show more content…
Women will stay home while the man goes to work and bring in the money. This is something that has been passed from generations to generations. But in this period of time, it is not a surprise when women become involved in the drug business. We have more women nowadays that are very brave enough to face the aspects of drug trafficking. Usually, most people that work in the police field would think that the person that’s leading and managing the drugs from one place to another would be a man because they would think that women are not able to think or even come up with those ideas like a male drug trafficker would. In cases like this one, women tend to go big and do better when it comes to doing drug trafficking just because no one will think that women are able to hand drug business. Women who handle business like drug trafficking usually do it because they have had a past where they struggled growing up and did not have everything growing up. It has been hard for police officers and agents who work for the Drug Enforcement Authority (DEA) to find drugs in women because women are less likely to be associated with drug trafficking and, therefore, women are able to pass by security with a lot of drugs hidden in their heels, chest, and are even able to swallow pellets that will contain …show more content…
Most of these women choose to become a part of drug trafficking due to economic situations and the fact that by making thousands of dollars per day it gives them motivation to do it and to continue to grow more and go big when it comes to transporting drugs. Women like to obtain money to sustain an opulent lifestyle which is what they will gain when they become more popular as far as doing drug trafficking. It has been easy for male drug lords to convinced women to act as drug mules because they make sure to tell them that it could be an easy trip and they will earn a lot of money and most of the women that accept these kinds of trips are usually women are single and poor mothers. What it is sad about situations like this one, is that these when these women are sent on these missions they are totally unaware and blind to the consequences and what could happen to their