Dr Samantha Jeffries from Griffith Criminology Institute.
Getting their families out of poverty is the most common reason why women risk trafficking drugs across Thailand’s borders a new Griffith University study has found.
The study, published in
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, interviewed 34 women and men to compare their lived experiences before being imprisoned in Thailand for international cross-border drug trafficking (ICBDT).
Three pathways to prison emerged for both groups: the ‘deviant’ lifestyle, financial hardship and the need to provide for their families, and inexperience and deception. The fourth pathway, romantic susceptibility, only affected women in the study.
Lead researcher Dr Samantha Jeffries from Griffith Criminology Institute said they found noticeable gender-based differences on the different pathways to prison for ICBDT between men and women.
$3b domestic violence effort has failed: report
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More than $3 billion spent over the past decade on a coordinated national strategy has failed to reduce family, domestic and sexual violence, according to a bipartisan parliamentary inquiry.
In 2009 state and federal officials agreed on a decade-long plan to reduce violence against women and their children, which led to the creation of the Our Watch organisation to prevent domestic violence, the âStop it at the Startâ awareness campaign and national support services such as 1800RESPECT.
On Thursday, Parliamentâs standing committee on social policy and legal affairs published a 471-page review of the plan that concluded it had not cut violence within relationships and against children.
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