ABSTRACT

There is little research examining how race, class, gender, and residential location work simultaneously to inform drug using identities. Using insights from narrative criminology, I build upon this literature by providing an examination of 58 current or former users interviewed across two research sites. Participants pulled from various cultural and subcultural narratives to construct narrative identities shaped by behavior, race, class, gender, and residential location. The primary identities constructed included “party user,” “chill user,” and “addict.” Intersecting social identities shaped how participants constructed identities in relation to their drug use in nuanced and complex ways. I provide evidence of how deviant identities are shaped by intersectional influences and how such influences limit the narratives available for deviant actors to construct identities.

摘要

很少有研究检查种族、阶级、性别和居住地是如何同时起作用来告知吸毒者身份的。利用叙事犯罪学的见解，我通过对在两个研究网站上接受采访的 58 位当前或以前的用户进行检查，以此文献为基础。参与者从各种文化和亚文化叙事中提取，以构建由行为、种族、阶级、性别和居住地点塑造的叙事身份。构建的主要身份包括“派对用户”、“寒冷用户”和“瘾君子”。交叉的社会身份塑造了参与者如何以微妙而复杂的方式构建与其吸毒相关的身份。