Few researchers have concerned themselves with qualitative gender-comparative studies of women’s and men’s prison trajectories – particularly appraisals relating to international cross border drug trafficking (ICBDT). Using life history interviews with prisoners incarcerated in three regions of Thailand, we describe, examine and compare the features of women’s and men’s pathways to prison for ICBDT. Overall, the findings point to both similarities and divergences in experiences by gender. Three pathways to prison emerged for both women and men: (1) ‘deviant’ lifestyle, (2) economic familial provisioning and (3) inexperience and deception. However, gendered variance was found within these pathways; an additional woman-only trajectory, the romantic susceptibility pathway, was also identified.

很少有研究人员关注女性和男性监狱轨迹的定性性别比较研究——尤其是与国际跨境贩毒 (ICBDT) 相关的评估。通过对泰国三个地区被监禁的囚犯的生活史访谈，我们描述、检查和比较了女性和男性因 ICBDT 入狱的途径的特征。总体而言，研究结果指出了性别经历的相似性和差异性。女性和男性都出现了三种入狱途径：（1）“离经叛道”的生活方式，（2）家庭经济供给和（3）缺乏经验和欺骗。然而，在这些途径中发现了性别差异；还确定了另一个仅限女性的轨迹，即浪漫易感性途径。